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We know that the verb in English is everything. We also know that there is a list of irregular verbs that are the basis of the English language. It just so happened that they are the stumbling block in learning. I recommend that you look . Perhaps this will help you look at the problem from a different angle. In those slightly absurd poems, I tried to include the most common irregular verbs.

But now let's talk about REGULAR verbs.

These are the majority of English verbs, to which we add ED. I was interested in collecting the most basic verbs that I use in my Everyday life.

I will specifically give examples in the past tense and in the perfect, so that the difference in tenses can also be seen.

1. Love loved loved (love)

For example:

I loved him two years ago. I loved him two years ago.

I have loved him. I loved him

2. Want wanted wanted (want)

I wanted an apple yesterday. I wanted an apple yesterday.

I have always wanted to work in a team. I have always wanted to work in a team.

3. Use used used (use, use)

I used this pen last week. I used this pen a week ago.

I have used this car today. I used this machine today.

4. Work worked worked (Work)

He worked yesterday. She worked yesterday.

I have just worked

5. Walk walked walked (walk, walk)

I walked in the forest two days ago. I walked in the forest 2 days ago.

I have walked in the park today. I took a walk in the park today.

6. Call called called (call, call)

I called for a doctor yesterday. I called the doctor yesterday.

I have just called the police. I just called the police.

7. Try tried tried (try, try)

I tried to repair my house in 1987

I have already tried this cream. I have already tried this cream.

8. Cry cry cry (cry, scream)

He yesterday. He cried yesterday.

He has never cried in his life. He never cried in his life.

9. Ask asked asked (ask, ask)

She asked for help yesterday. He asked for help yesterday.

I've never asked for help. I never asked for help.

10. Answered answered answered (answer)

He answered that he was ill. He replied that he was sick.

I've just answered the question. I just answered the question.

11. Need needed needed (need)

I needed help yesterday. I needed help yesterday.

I've suddenly needed help. I suddenly needed help.

12. Play played played (play)

I computer played an hour ago. I was playing on the computer an hour ago.

I have already played this game! I've already played this game!

13. Help helped helped (help)

He helped them in 1999. He helped them in 1999.

He has never helped them. He never helped them.

14. Live lived lived (live)

I lived in London 2 years ago. I lived in London 2 years ago.

I have already lived in London for 10 years. I have already lived in London for 10 years.

15. Move moved moved (move, move)

I've moved to Moscow. I moved to Moscow.

He moved to Paris two years ago. He moved to Paris 2 years ago.

16. Learn learned learned (may be an irregular verb) (teach, study, learn)

I have just learned the poem! I just learned a verse!

I learned Spanish when I was young. I learned Spanish when I was young.

17. Watch watched watched (watch, watch)

I watch TV yesterday. I watched TV yesterday.

He has watched this program lately. He recently watched this program.

18. Open opened opened (open)

He opened the door yesterday. He opened the door yesterday.

I've opened the door. I just opened the door.

19. Close closed closed (close)

I've just closed the eyes. I just closed my eyes.

I closed my company two days ago. I closed my company 2 years ago.

20. Die died died (die)

This knight died many years ago. This knight died many years ago.

He has recently died. He recently died.

21. Pass passed passed (pass, pass)

He passed exams 2 days ago. He passed his exams 2 years ago.

He has passed the trial. He passed the test!

22. Serve served served (serve)

He served in the army two days ago. He served in the army 2 years ago.

He has served in the army lately. He has already served in the army.

23. Change changed changed (change, change)

He has changed his style lately. He recently changed his style

He changed computer yesterday. He changed the computer yesterday.

24. Stop stopped stopped

He stopped smoking 2 years ago. He stopped smoking 2 years ago.

He has just stopped (he just stopped).

25. remember remembered(remember, remember)

I remembered him last night. I remembered him last night.

He has remembered everything today. He remembered everything today.

26. Promise promised promised

He promised to come. He promised to come.

He has never promised that. He never promised it.

27. Believe believed believed. (believe)

I didn`t believe him 2 years ago. I didn't believe him 2 years ago.

She has never believed me. She never believed me.

28. hoped hoped. (Hope)

I hoped to do it yesterday. I was hoping to do this yesterday.

I've hoped for him. I relied on him.

29. Realize realized realized. (Recognize, implement).

I realized that he was wrong. I realized that he was wrong.

I`ve finally realized my goal. I have finally achieved my goal.

30. look looked looked (look)

I have looked in the mirror. I looked in the mirror.

He looked into this documents yesterday. He carefully studied these documents yesterday.

P.S I also want to include here 2 verbs that I liked lately and they all start with the letter “M”.

Mention mentioned mentioned.

Don't mention it. It's OK.

I have already mentioned it. I already mentioned this.

She mentioned the book to me. She told me about this book.

Manage managed managed . (to manage, succeed, manage to do something).

I managed to do it yesterday. I managed to do it yesterday.

I`ve managed with it. I got over it.

Have a great day

Regular verbs (Regular verbs) are verbs that have forms past tense and participleII formed by the same rule: by simply adding the ending - ed to basic form of a given verb (this is how they differ from those in which these forms can be formed in different ways). For example:

love – loved – loved.
roll – rolled – rolled.

That is, love is the basic form, loved is the past tense, or participle II. Most of the verbs in English are regular verbs.

All verbs in English (including irregular verbs and be, do, have) have 5 forms. We will talk a little about all of them, but for a start it is enough to know what is basic form (or 1st form) as well as forms past tense(or 2nd form) and participleII(or 3rd form), that is, those forms that define correct verbs.

Basic form

Basic form/Present form (base form or Present Form or Infinitive without particle to or dictionary form) - a simple notation of verbs, as they look in dictionaries. It is to it that they add, for example, the ending - ed, if they want to form time (thereby the verb acquires the 2nd form), but this form can also be used independently, most often in time:

I love what I do.
I love what I do.

I call her every day.
I call her every day.

Sometimes the form of the verb with the ending - s, which is used only with the pronouns OH (He), SHE (She), IT (It). Examples:

She/He/It loves him
She/He/It loves him

He/She/It calls me every day.
He/She/It calls me every day.

Past tense form

Past tense form (past simple or Past Indefinite or 2nd form of regular verb) - the form formed with the help of the ending - ed by adding it to the base form. Used for education simple time. It is a defining form, that is, this form is found only in regular verbs (but there are rare exceptions).

He loved her.
He loved her.

She killed him.
She killed him.

Past participle form

Past participle form / Participle II (Past Participle or Participle II) - looks and is formed in regular verbs the same as the 2nd form (which simplifies our lives), but is used to form all three time groups (present, past and future). It is the defining form of regular verbs.

He isloved.
He (is) loved.

He was loved.
He was loved.

He will be loved.
He will be loved.

ed the ending becomes as a subject (definition / object or person experiencing the result of a certain action):

paint – painted.
to paint - painted.

A killed soldier
Killed soldier.

Infinitive

Infinitive (Infinitive or Infinitive) - the same as the base form of the verb, but with the particle to in front of her - for this reason she received the name of the infinitive. This form is formed in all verbs in the same way (including be, do, have).

You can talk about the infinitive for a long time, the main thing that will be useful for us to know is the simple form of the word with the particle " TO", which tells us that the given word denotes an action (that is, a verb). Particle " TO"in Russian is always translated as" TH".

An image for clarity: a man is walking along the street, and in order to name what he is doing, we will say - in Russian it is called " WALK"but an American will say - it's called" TO GO". The same can be said about the verb be: " TO BE" is just a designation/name of the action " BE"and it can be said no different from a simple" BE", unless, of course, we do not consider that the infinitive not used in speech, otherwise it would look like this - I walk today to a friend ... but still in some cases it is appropriate:

I like to play.
I love play.

I want to open any interesting book.
I want open some interesting book.

It is very simple to determine this case (whether an infinitive is needed or not) - translate this sentence into Russian.

The main thing to remember is that this form is neutral and simply means an action, it does not describe any time period and does not indicate the person who performs this action. In other words, the infinitive is not used in any particular period of time, but is mainly used to indicate the name of an action. Also associate the particle "TO" with the Russian "Т" at the end of the verb, which in English is placed before the verb.

Present participle

Present participle form / Participle I (Present Participle or Participle I or Gerund) - is formed with the help of the ending - ing by adding it to the base form of the verb. Most often, participle I is used to form forms continued time (for example, ). This form looks the same for all verbs (including irregular and be, do, have).

He is touching a book.
He touches the book.

He was touching a book.
He touched the book.

Please note that in most cases the verb with - ing ending becomes a noun:

smoke – smoking.
smoking - smoking.

run – running.
run - run.

The value of the acquired knowledge

Perhaps you will say: "Yes, everything is very interesting, but ... why do I need to know this?". Well, at least in order to understand what the names Infinitive, Participle and so on mean in tables designed for memorizing regular and verbs.

Often they are written as follows: Infinitive (or Present), Past Simple (or Indefinite), Past Participle (or Participle II) and then verbs with this form go below them. An example of a table of common regular verbs:

Example table of regular verbs

base form	past simple	Past Participle
accept	accepted	accepted
agree	agreed	agreed
attack	attacked	attacked
clear	cleared	cleared
blame	blamed	blamed
contain	contained	contained

Verbs( verbs) are central to any English sentence. Therefore, it is so important to pay special attention to this part of speech. All verbs in English can be divided into 2 groups: regular and irregular. The forms of regular and irregular verbs are used to form the past tense (Past Simple) and participle II (Participle II). What is the difference between regular and irregular English verbs?

Regular verbs in English: regular verbs
Regular verbs in English ( regular verbs) - verbs in which the past tense form is formed by adding the ending -ed to the stem. For example:

• Look (watch) - looked (looked).
• Paint (draw) - painted (painted).
• Call (call) - called (called).

To properly add the ending -ed to a verb, there are a few rules to keep in mind.

1. If the verb ends with an unpronounceable -e, then we add only the letter -d:
   • Improve (improve) - improved (improved).
   • Like (like) - liked (liked).
2. The ending -ed is pronounced like /t/ if the verb ends in a hissing or voiceless consonant:< >Stop (stop) - stopped (stopped). Polish (polish) - polished (polished). The ending -ed is pronounced as / d / if the verb ends in a vowel or voiced consonant:
   • Study (study) - studied (studied).
   • Travel (travel) - travelled (traveled).
3. The ending -ed is pronounced like /id/ if the verb ends in -t or -d:
   • Report (report) - reported (reported).
   • Pretend (pretend) - pretended (pretended).

Regular English verbs do not cause difficulties, since the rules for their formation are very simple.

Irregular verbs in English: irregular webs
Irregular verbs in English (irregular verbs) differ in that they do not form the past tense according to the rule. Such verbs must be memorized.

The table of irregular verbs in English is like the multiplication table in mathematics. The foundation of the foundations! Do you want to speak the language fluently? Learn English verbs by heart.

How many irregular verbs does a modern person need to know?
In total, there are about 470 irregular verbs in English, but don't be alarmed, most of them are outdated and are not used in our time.

Beginners just need to learn 50 irregular verbs.

Those who want to approach the level of the average English speaker will have to learn about 200 irregular verbs.

Top 50 Irregular Verbs

The frequency of these 50 verbs in English speech is 87%

Top 200 Irregular Verbs

For those who want to get closer to the level of the native speaker - the 200 most popular irregular English verbs.

To study, you can use:
List of irregular verbs with pronunciation: http://www.irregularverbs.ru/table/
Another good way to learn irregular verbs with the help of rhyming verses.

And finally, a little humor. This video has long become super-popular, and its author, MC Fluency, is a celebrity widely known in circles of English lovers. Happy viewing.

Greetings to all lovers of English and grammar in particular :-P. Today, an interesting and useful selection awaits you again. One might think that irregular, modal and phrasal verbs important for correct speech, that's all you need to know. You are deeply mistaken if you think that studying regular verbs is a useless thing, since everyone knows a simple mechanism when a word in the past number is added to [-ed]. Regular verbs in English In fact, regular verbs are the same as irregular and any others. They represent the noun. If you have a noun cook, then you also have a verb to cookie. Just like when there was an ordinary word "google" which was used in the meaning of "search engine", but today the English language has given us "to google", which has become to mean "search in the google search engine".

Thus, by studying regular English verbs, you learn this unit, and the noun, and the grammar of the formation of the past tense - three in one. Any English language course includes the study of these words in its program. Therefore, having studied difficult irregular, modal, phrasal, you should not ignore the usual regular verbs. These words are an important part of expressing emotions and feelings and building sentences.

Everyone knows that regular verbs are formed by adding to the second participle and the past tense ending [-ed]: Paint - painted - draw b, however, following this rule, it is necessary to take into account several important nuances:

• If the word ends with "e", then we do not duplicate it and add only the ending [-d]: Like - liked - like
• If the lexeme ends in a voiceless or hissing consonant, then the ending [-ed] is pronounced like "t": Polish - polished - ["pɒlɪʃt] - polish, S top - stopped - - stop. Please note that when forming Past Simple in monosyllabic verbs, the last consonant is doubled
• In the case when the unit ends with a voiced consonant or vowel, then the familiar [-ed] picks up the sound "d": Destroy - destroyed - - destroy. By the way, when a lexeme ends in “y” and it is preceded by a consonant letter, then when [-ed] is added, the “y” sound is reduced and “i” appears in its place: Study - studied - ["stʌdɪd] - to study. In the case when there is a vowel before "y", then no additional changes occur.
• If the word ends with "d" or "t", then [-ed] is pronounced as "id": Pretend - pretended - pretend, Start - Started - - start, start

Regular English verbs do not cause any particular difficulties, since the scheme for their formation is quite simple and transparent.

Table of 50 Regular English Verbs

50 regular English verbs
Word	Transcription	Translation
Ask	ɑːsk	To ask
Answer	ˈɑːnsə	Respond
allow	əˈlaʊ	Let
Agree	əˈɡriː	Agree
Borrow	ˈbɒrəʊ	borrow
Believe	bɪˈliːv	Believe
Copy	ˈkɒpi	Copy
cook	kʊk	Cook
close	kləʊz	Close
change	tʃeɪndʒ	Change
carry	ˈkæri	Wear
call	kɔːl	call
Discuss	dɪˈskʌs	Discuss
Decide	dɪˈsaɪd	Decide
explain	ɪkˈspleɪn	Explain
slip	slɪp	Slide
cry	kraɪ	Scream
Finish	ˈfɪnɪʃ	End
admit	əd "mɪt	To accept
glow	gləʋ	Shine
rate	great	Rub, Grow
grip	grɪp	Grab
Help	help	To help
Happen	ˈhaepən	Happen
handle	"haendəl	Manage
look	lʊk	Look
live	lɪv	Live
Listen	ˈlɪsn	Listen
Like	laek	Like
move	muːv	Move
manage	"mænɪdʒ	lead
need	niːd	To need
open	ˈəʊpən	Open
Remember	rɪˈmembə	Remember
Promise	prɒmɪs	Promise
play	pleɪ	Play
Suggest	səˈdʒest	Suggest
Study	stʌdi	Study
stop	stɒp	Stop
Start	stɑːt	Start off
Travel	ˈtrævl	Travel
talk	tɔːk	Speak
translate	trænz "leɪt	Transfer
try	traɪ	Try
use	juːz	Use
Worry	ˈwʌri	Worry
work	wɜːk	Work
watch	wɒtʃ	Look
Walk	wɔːk	Walk
Wait	weɪt	Wait

You can download and print this table.

Today's material will again be devoted to the great and powerful English verb. Why is the predicate in an English sentence given so much attention? Because it not only expresses any actions, but also indicates the time of their implementation. To be able to correctly convey the time of events, you need to know what regular verbs and irregular verbs are in English. This article will help you understand this important topic.

The English are very attentive to the delimitation of time moments, which is the reason for a large number of different verb forms and combinations. Let's remember the system of these tenses.

There are four main aspects in English:

• ( simple steps);
• Continuous ( ongoing processes);
• perfect( completed activities);
• Perfect Continuous ( actions are still in progress, but some results have already been obtained).

And in each of these paragraphs, respectively, the Present, Past and Future tenses are distinguished.

The classification into regular and irregular verbs in English is associated with the formation of the past in and all types of tenses in. So, let's get to the heart of the matter.

In English grammar there is a general rule for the construction of speech structures related to the past. According to this grammatical norm, every verb expressing past events must take the ending -ed. Moreover, this ending is the same both for the form in Present Simple, and for the past participle (Participle I), with the help of which constructions in Perfect are formed.

Infinitive	Transformation	Past tense
ask	+ed	asked
want		wanted
visit		visited

But, sometimes it happens that the original use of words is firmly entrenched in speech and does not want to obey any newfangled rules. This is what happened with English verbs. Due to historical traditions, about 470 words are an exception to this rule. Accordingly, this is where the division into regular and irregular verbs of the English language came from.

And if everything is clear about regular verbs, then the question arises, what kind of norm do irregular English verbs obey? But none. There is absolutely no rule, at least somehow generalizing the principles of their change.

For some irregular English verbs, the forms completely coincide with the infinitive. In others, too, everything is written the same way, but unexpectedly it is read differently. For the third, 2 types of the verb form coincide, and for the fourth, all three types have a different form.

Infinitive	past simple	Past Participle
put	put	put
read [read]	read [red]	read [red]
shoot	shot	shot
shake	shook	shaken

To learn how to easily make sentences with such verbs, there is no other way out than memorizing all forms by heart.

As we have already noted, the English language has approximately 470 irregular verbs. But we naturally do not urge to learn them all. It is enough to get acquainted with the most common ones, of which, ironically, there are also many.

To facilitate understanding of this topic and further learning the language, in the next section we provide lists of popular English regular and irregular verbs. The skill comes with practice, so after a few lessons you will automatically use these words without thinking about the rules and exceptions for a long time.

Popular regular verbs and irregular verbs in English

Let's consider 50 verbs of each kind, most often used by the English in everyday speech.

Regular verbs

Infinitive	Past simple = participle I	Translation
answer	answered	respond
ask	asked	ask, ask
believe	believed	trust, believe, believe
call	called	call, call
change	changed	replace, change
clean	cleaned	clean, clean up
close	closed	close
cook	cooked	Cook
cry	cry	scream, cry
dance	danced	dance
decide	decided	decide
explain	explained	explain
finish	finished	finish, end
hate	hated	hate
help	helped	to help
hope	hoped	hope
interest	interested	be interested
join	joined	connect, join
jump	jumped	jump
laugh	laughed	laugh
listen	listened to	listen
live	lived	live
look	looked	look, see
love	loved	be in love
manage	managed	manage, manage
miss	missed	miss, miss
move	moved	move, move
need	needed	to need
open	opened	open
paint	painted	to paint, to paint
pass	passed	pass, pass
play	played	play
prefer	preferred	prefer, give
promise	promised	promise, assure
realize	realized	realize, understand
remember	remembered	remember, memorize
serve	served	serve, serve
start	started	start off
stop	stopped	stop
study	studied	to study
talk	talked	speak, talk
touch	touched	touch
travel	traveled	travel
try	tried	try
use	used	use
walk	walked	go for a walk
want	wanted	to want
wash	washed	wash, wash
watch	watched	look
work	worked	work

Wrong

Infinitive	past simple	Participle I	Translation
be	was/were	been	be, exist
become	became	become	become, turn
begin	began	begun	start, begin
bring	brought	brought	bring, deliver
build	built	built	build
buy	bought	bought	buy, buy
catch	caught	caught	catch, catch
come	came	come	come, arrive
cost	cost	cost	cost
do	did	done	do, perform
draw	drew	drawn	draw
drink	drank	drunk	drink
drive	drove	driven	drive a car
eat	ate	eaten	eat
fall	fell	fallen	fall down
feel	felt	felt	feel
find	found	found	find
fly	flew	flown	fly, fly
forgive	forgave	forgiven	forgive
get	got	got	receive, get
give	gave	given	give
go	went	gone	go, go
grow	grew	grown	grow, grow
have	had	had	have
hear	heard	heard	hear
keep	kept	kept	keep, store
know	knew	known	know
leave	left	left	to leave, leave
let	let	let	let
lie	lay	lain	lie
lose	lost	lost	lose, lose
make	made	made	do, produce
mean	meant	meant	mean, mean
meet	met	met	meet, meet
pay	paid	paid	to pay
read	read	read	read
run	ran	run	run away
say	said	said	speak
see	saw	seen	see
send	sent	sent	send, send
show	showed	shown	show
sit	sat	sat	sit down, sit
sleep	slept	slept	sleep
speak	spoke	spoken	speak, talk
spend	spent	spent	spend, spend
take	took	taken	take, grab, take
tell	told	told	to tell, to speak, to inform
think	thought	thought	think
wake	woke	woken	wake up
write	wrote	written	write

Now you are familiar with the most common regular verbs and popular irregular verbs in English. Each table contains the minimum that beginners need. We recommend that you print this material and use it as a cheat sheet for making various proposals. After a few lessons, you yourself will not notice how you remember most of the words by heart.