30 Irregular Verbs | English Grammar & Pronunciation

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Guys I'm super excited about this lesson because today I'm going to show you how to pronounce
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thirty irregular past tense verbs and I'm going to show you different patterns of irregular
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verbs and how we organise them so it makes it easier for you to learn. All that is coming
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right up but you know what time it is guys, right? It's grammar time!
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Alright let's get straight into it. Now I'm going to give you the infinitive verb then
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the past tense verb and then the past participle. So one, two, three. Now it's really important
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guys to say it with me, ok? So once I say it, say it straight away. Start practising,
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ok? Because practise makes perfect. That's the only way that you are going to be able
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to learn how to pronounce these properly, ok? So let's get into it. So we are going
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to start off with the four most essential irregular verbs. The ones that you are going
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to use most often. Guys you have to learn these ones, ok? If nothing else, just learn
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these four. Alright, here we go. Be, was or were, been. Do, did, done. Go, went, gone.
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Have, had, had. Ok, the four essentials, they are done! Now you'll notice there guys that
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some of them have a different past verb to a past participle. Some of them had the same.
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What's the pattern, how can we learn these if there are no patterns? Well luckily there
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are a few patterns that we can try and follow. So we are going get into that right now. Lets
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start off with verbs that have identical past forms and past participles. Say, said, said.
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Lose, lost, lost. Win, won, won. Sleep, slept, slept. Our next group have the same past and
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past participles but the sound of the vowel changes from the infinitive form to the other
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two forms. Let's check this out. The vowel sound we are talking about is a long /i:/
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and /e/ let's have a look. Meet, met, met. Read, read, read. Feel, felt, felt. Keep,
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kept, kept. In our next category the vowels change so it's starts with i in the infinitive
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then goes to a in the past and then u in the past participle. For example sing, sang, sung.
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So i in the infinitive, a in the past and u in the past participle. Swim, swam, swum.
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Drink, drank, drunk. And ring, rang, rung. We have several irregular verbs that end in
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-en. So for example take, took, taken. So the -en there taken. Drive, drove, driven.
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-En again. Give, gave, given. Write, wrote, written. A
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very common ending for irregular verbs is -ought or -aught. For example Buy, bought,
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bought. Think, thought, thought. Fight, fought, fought. And finally catch, caught, caught.
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Alright, and the last group that we are going to look at today is the one where there is
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no change. It's the easiest one out of all of them. The infinitive, the past and the
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past participle are all the same. Hallelujah! Alright, so for example fit, fit, fit. Put,
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put, put. Hit, hit, hit. Hurt, hurt, hurt. Amazing! How useful. Alright, so those ones
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the same. The infinitive, the past or the past participle. So to determine which tense
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you are actually talking about you are going to need to look at other clues in the sentence
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for example are they using a past time phrase in there. If so, that will be the past verb.
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Are they using an auxiliary before the past participle? So it could be the present perfect
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for example 'have put' then you'll know it's the present perfect. So you'll need clues
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within the sentence to help you to know which one it is. Alright I think it's time for a
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little quiz. So what we are going to do is, I'm going to throw up a verb to you, the infinitive
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and I want you to shout out the past and the past participle forms. Are you ready? Here
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we go.
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Alright good job guys, well done. Did you enjoy that little game at the end there?
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I hope so. Alright, if you know any other patterns related to irregular verbs let me
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know in the comments below. Share your knowledge with the rest of the Eat Sleep Dream English
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community. I love it when you guys do that. It's amazing. Alright guys, thank you so much
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for hanging out with me. Remember, I'm back every Tuesday and every Friday with fresh
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modern British English to help you take your English to the next level. Check me out on
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Instagram, check me out on Facebook. But until next time, thank you so much for hanging out
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with me. This is Tom, the Chief Dreamer, saying goodbye.
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