Grammar Bytes: Irregular Verbs

Grammar rules are provided for irregular verbs. Includes examples and tables.

This exercise tests your knowledge of irregular verbs. A link to the rules for using irregular verbs is included--and explanations are given for each answer.

This exercise tests your knowledge of irregular verbs. A link to the rules for using irregular verbs is included--and explanations are given for each answer.

Words like 'walk' and 'look' are regular verbs - they behave in a predictable way. But there's a whole class of words in English, called irregular verbs, that are harder to predict. David, KA's Grammar Fellow, explains.

This group of irregular verbs have vowel sounds that change in a predictable way, when they go from the present to the past tense.

These are the most regular of the irregular verbs; while they don't behave exactly like regular verbs, like present tense 'walk' become past tense 'walked', they do maintain the '-ed' sound. It's just spelled differently.

Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a verb phrase in the context of a sentence.

Some irregular verbs just won't be categorized. They don't fit into neat little boxes. These are those verbs.

Some irregular verbs have these strange -en endings that only show up in their past perfect/past participle forms. Let's take a look!

In this grammar learning exercise, students read two paragraph passages, underline the irregular verbs in each one and write the correct form of the verb right above the incorrect one.