Fundamentals Of English Grammar

9. fail


10. file
    11, drag
    12, use


11. prefer


12. sign


13. point


14. appear


15. relax


16. borrow


17. aim


18. cram
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RBGUIAR
VERBS

IRREGULAR

VERBS

SIMPLE FORM SIMPLR PAST PAST PARTICIPLE PRESENT PARTICIPLE

finish

stop

hope

wait

play

uv

finished finished

stopped stopped

hoped hoped

waited waited

played played

tried tried

see

make

sing

eat

Put

go

PRINCIPAL PAPTS OF A VERB

(1) the simple form

(2) the simple past

(3) the past participle

(4) the present participle

saw seen seeing

made made making

sang sung singing

ate eaten eating

Put went Put gone pu,hg Wng

English verbs have four principal forms or "parts!' The simple form is the

form that is found in a dictionary. It is the base form with no endings on it

(no final -8, -ed, or -kg).

The simple pant form ends in -ed for regular verbs. Most verbs are regular,

but many common verbs have irregular past forms. See the reference List of

irregular verbs that follows in Chart 2-7.

The past participle also ends in -ed for regular verbs. Some verbs are

irregular. It is used in perfect tenses (see Chapter 4) and the passive

(Chapter 10).

The present participle ends in -ins (for both regular and irregular verbs).

It is used in progressive tenses (e.g., the present progressive and the past