![]() ![]() Instead we say, “I stuck the broken toy back together with glue. We don’t say, “I stack the broken toy back together with glue.” The past simple is stuck, and the past participle is also stuck. Stick – meaning: to make two things fasten together. (Stunk up is a phrasal verb we use to describe when a smell has filled an enclosed space.) MORE EXAMPLESīut be careful, because not all irregular verbs that have an ‘i’ follow this pattern. – Don’t go in there! A skunk has stunk up the house! – We left the building because it stank of smoke. Please note: The past participle drunk is not to be confused with the adjective drunk to describe someone who has had too much alcohol to drink, nor the noun to refer to someone who is regularly drunk or an alcoholic – that person might be unkindly called ‘a drunk’. 0 likes, 0 comments - Learning English With Jennifer (learningenglishwithjennifer) on Instagram: 'Hey everyone Todays IRREGULAR VERB of the day is MOW. (That is a sneaky reference to a well-known children’s book – parents, you may have read it to your children!) ![]() – The tiger has drunk all the tea from the teapot. – We drank a toast to the bride and groom. – She has swum every morning since she was 10 years old. – I swim because it’s good for my health. The same rule applies to these other verbs. – You’re a bit late now, our lesson has begun! – Let’s begin to learn about irregular verbs! We’ll start with begin! Begin in the past simple is began and in the past participle, begun. The good news is that all these verbs follow the same pattern, so you just need to learn which verbs follow the pattern. The type that we will talk about today are the group where the vowel changes in both the past tense and the past participle.įind out how to conjugate these verbs and which verbs follow the pattern in my new video. ![]() There are different types of irregular verbs. While most English regular verbs use the ending -ed for the past tense and participle forms, irregular verbs each have their own unique tense forms and past participles. But it’s the irregular verbs that give us the most trouble. Irregular verbs are verbs that do not follow the normal patterns for tense and past participle. Regular verbs in the past simple and past participle end in either -d, -ed or -ied when replacing a y. Have you ever come across that most annoying of irregular verb patterns: I – A – U? It’s bad enough that verbs change their vowel once to make the past simple, but twice? That’s just cruel!Īs we know, verbs in English have three forms: the base form (or infinitive without “to”), the past simple, and the past participle. ![]()
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