Information:
There are different forms of past tense verbs.
Many verbs are regular. You can
add ed to them.
I laugh. I laughed.
I have laughed. (with helping word)
Some verbs are irregular. You usually
can't add ed
to them. They change in different ways.
I eat. I ate.
I have eaten. (with helping word)
The table below list some of our common irregular verbs:
| Present Tense |
Past Tense |
With Helping Word |
am, is, are
|
was, were
|
been
|
begin
|
began
|
begun
|
break
|
broke
|
broken
|
catch
|
caught
|
caught
|
come
|
came
|
come
|
do
|
did
|
done
|
draw
|
drew
|
drawn
|
eat
|
ate
|
eaten
|
fall
|
fell
|
fallen
|
give
|
gave
|
given
|
go
|
went
|
gone
|
hide
|
hid
|
hidden, hid
|
know
|
knew
|
known
|
ride
|
rode
|
ridden
|
ring
|
rang
|
rung
|
run
|
ran
|
run
|
see
|
saw
|
seen
|
sing
|
sang, sung
|
sung
|
take
|
took
|
taken
|
throw
|
threw
|
thrown
|
write
|
wrote
|
written
|