How do you learn them?
irregular verbs
How do you learn them?
First the good news – all new verbs in English are regular.
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I photocopied the report.
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She faxed it to me.
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They emailed everybody about it.
However, that doesn’t help you to learn the approximately 180 irregular verbs which do exist. Luckily some of these are extremely rare but many others are very useful and you need to know them.
So how do you learn them? Some teachers think you should learn a list of them ‘by heart’. Other teachers think you should not learn them at all – you will just gradually acquire them over time.
One useful method is to note down new irregular verbs as you meet them. But how should you note them?
It is useful to put these verbs (or any vocabulary you want to learn) into sentences and learn those rather than the individual word.
Which do you think is easier to learn?
stick stuck stuck
I stuck the photo into my album.
Another good technique is to classify the irregular verbs into 4 categories.
1. All forms the same
cost cost cost
set set set
2. Similar sound groups
beat beat beaten
eat ate eaten
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blow blew blown
throw threw thrown
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drink drank drunk
sing sang sung
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speak spoke spoken
wake woke woken
3. The second and third forms are the same.
bend bent bent
sleep slept slept
spend spent spent
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bring brought brought
buy bought bought
teach taught taught
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have had had
pay paid paid
say said said
4. The “unclassifiables”
come came come
do did done
go went gone
show showed shown
As you meet new irregular verbs, try to decide in which category they fall.
HAVE A NICE DAY
Tengkp
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