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Introduction to irregular verbs
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.
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- What happens I it says "I will now talk"(15 votes)
- it's right if you are speaking Vietnamese. i will now understanding that, you will say in 1 second later :)(12 votes)
- How can I say when I was someone else(6 votes)
- can we use instead of she has we use she have ?(6 votes)
- “Have” doesn’t agree with “she”. It has to be “she has”.
If you haven’t already, you could watch the video “Introduction to verb agreement”.(3 votes)
- Can you do a video on verbals? Participles, Gerunds.etc?(2 votes)
- The following video contains some information about gerunds.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-sentences-and-clauses/phrases-and-clauses/v/phrases-and-clauses-syntax-khan-academy(5 votes)
- I'm having a lot of difficulties with the practice for irregular verbs. I watched the video a lot, but I am still struggling! Is there any other way to explain this?(2 votes)
- Is there other verbs are able to be change?(1 vote)
- The way you asked you question s incorrect
You should write: ARE there any verbs that are able to be changed?(4 votes)
- Hello Guys out there,
Please can you tell me what the word Reg. mean? If you know the answer please do tell me. Plus I like the way you say "Hello Grammarians!"(2 votes)- "Reg." can be an abbreviation for "Regiment" if used in a military context.
"Reg." can be an abbreviation for "regulation" if one is speaking of rules.
"Reg." can be an abbreviation for "Register" if one is speaking of some sort of a book.
"Reg." can be an abbreviation for "regular" when speaking of regular and irregular verbs.(2 votes)
- How can the y used as the vowel ?(1 vote)
- It sometimes would make an "e" sound. Like the word "happy". You hear the "e" sound, but there is a "y" there instead.
Did this help?(4 votes)
- I ate/had eaten only a mango that morning.
Which is the correct choice and why?
And I would love a little elaboration in the difference b/w ate and eaten. Because somehow I feel that they are both used in PAST.(0 votes)- Both are correct. Each implies an action that happened and was completed in the past. The difference is not between "ate" and "eaten", but between "ate" and "had eaten". In terms of meaning, they are the same. In terms of grammar, "ate" indicates the simple past tense, and "had eaten" is the past perfect tense.(6 votes)
- Are they the only irregular verbs?(2 votes)
- No, they are not the only irregular verbs. David just listed a few examples of common irregular verbs that you might run into. In fact, there are many irregular verbs out there such as burn, eat, fight, keep, pay, etc.(0 votes)
Video transcript
- Hello grammarians. Today I want to start talking
about irregular verbs. That is to say verbs
that are a little weird. You know, we have this
idea of a regular verb that we can conjugate in all tenses and it's just going to behave
in a way that we expect. Like for example the verb talk. So if we take a regular verb and we put it in the past,
the present, and the future, this is what it's going to look like. Present tense, talk. Future tense, will talk. Past tense, talked, with that e-d ending. But there are plenty of verbs in English, as you have no doubt discovered, that don't follow that basic rule. Present tense is one form of the verb, then the past tense is the
present with e-d tacked onto it, and then the future with
will tacked onto the front. And there are plenty of words in English, as you have no doubt discovered, that don't behave that way at all. So let's take another -- let's take an irregular word like run. Present tense, run. Future tense, will run. Past tense, ran. Oh weird. Super duper weird. Now there are a lot of
irregular verbs in English, but you're listening to someone with a grammar book the size of a car. So I think between the two of us we can figure this out together. But for now, let's just focus on four verbs. To be, to have, to do, and to say. So let's take these verbs and make them work for a
bunch of different people in different times. So in the first person, when we're talking about ourselves, when I'm talking about myself. In the present I would say I am. I have. I do. I say. If we're talking about someone else, in the present in the singular, we would say she is, she has, she does, and she says. So the third person singular is different in the way that these
words are pronounced. So am because of this
entirely different word is, have doesn't become haves, it's has, and do doesn't become does, it becomes does, we actually change the vowel sound here, just like say doesn't become says, we don't say she says in
standard American English, we say she says. In the present tense, we are, we have, we do, we say. And in the past tense in the first person, these four verbs form the following: I was, I had, I did, and I said. And in the plural past it was we were, we had, we did, and we said. These four verbs are some of
the strangest ones in English, but they're the most important. In another video, I'm going to go through
some broad rules that govern the rest of the irregular
verbs in English. You can learn anything. David, out!