30 Irregular Verbs | English Grammar & Pronunciation

Guys I'm super excited about this lesson because today I'm going to show you how to pronounce

thirty irregular past tense verbs and I'm going to show you different patterns of irregular

verbs and how we organise them so it makes it easier for you to learn. All that is coming

right up but you know what time it is guys, right? It's grammar time!

Alright let's get straight into it. Now I'm going to give you the infinitive verb then

the past tense verb and then the past participle. So one, two, three. Now it's really important

guys to say it with me, ok? So once I say it, say it straight away. Start practising,

ok? Because practise makes perfect. That's the only way that you are going to be able

to learn how to pronounce these properly, ok? So let's get into it. So we are going

to start off with the four most essential irregular verbs. The ones that you are going

to use most often. Guys you have to learn these ones, ok? If nothing else, just learn

these four. Alright, here we go. Be, was or were, been. Do, did, done. Go, went, gone.

Have, had, had. Ok, the four essentials, they are done! Now you'll notice there guys that

some of them have a different past verb to a past participle. Some of them had the same.

What's the pattern, how can we learn these if there are no patterns? Well luckily there

are a few patterns that we can try and follow. So we are going get into that right now. Lets

start off with verbs that have identical past forms and past participles. Say, said, said.

Lose, lost, lost. Win, won, won. Sleep, slept, slept. Our next group have the same past and

past participles but the sound of the vowel changes from the infinitive form to the other

two forms. Let's check this out. The vowel sound we are talking about is a long /i:/

and /e/ let's have a look. Meet, met, met. Read, read, read. Feel, felt, felt. Keep,

kept, kept. In our next category the vowels change so it's starts with i in the infinitive

then goes to a in the past and then u in the past participle. For example sing, sang, sung.

So i in the infinitive, a in the past and u in the past participle. Swim, swam, swum.

Drink, drank, drunk. And ring, rang, rung. We have several irregular verbs that end in

-en. So for example take, took, taken. So the -en there taken. Drive, drove, driven.

-En again. Give, gave, given. Write, wrote, written. A

very common ending for irregular verbs is -ought or -aught. For example Buy, bought,

bought. Think, thought, thought. Fight, fought, fought. And finally catch, caught, caught.

Alright, and the last group that we are going to look at today is the one where there is

no change. It's the easiest one out of all of them. The infinitive, the past and the

past participle are all the same. Hallelujah! Alright, so for example fit, fit, fit. Put,

put, put. Hit, hit, hit. Hurt, hurt, hurt. Amazing! How useful. Alright, so those ones

the same. The infinitive, the past or the past participle. So to determine which tense

you are actually talking about you are going to need to look at other clues in the sentence

for example are they using a past time phrase in there. If so, that will be the past verb.

Are they using an auxiliary before the past participle? So it could be the present perfect

for example 'have put' then you'll know it's the present perfect. So you'll need clues

within the sentence to help you to know which one it is. Alright I think it's time for a

little quiz. So what we are going to do is, I'm going to throw up a verb to you, the infinitive

and I want you to shout out the past and the past participle forms. Are you ready? Here

we go.

Alright good job guys, well done. Did you enjoy that little game at the end there?

I hope so. Alright, if you know any other patterns related to irregular verbs let me

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