Verbs are words that show action. They indicate three different dimensions of time the present, past and future called tense. (e.g., sing, sang, will/shall sing) Auxiliaries are otherwise known as helping verbs. These words are used with present /past participles to make a complete verb. (e.g., 'be'/ 'do'/ ‘have’ verbs) Most action words show tense in a regular way and we state them under Regular
verbs. (e.g., dance-danced; show — showed) Yet, there are certain verbs which change their spelling to show the past tense and the past participle. (e.g.,ring/rang/rung; do/did/done) Such words are said to be irregular verbs.
A. Observe the following irregular verbs:
| Present | Past | Past Participle |
| Arise | arose | arisen |
| Begin | began | begun |
| choose | chose | chosen |
| draw | drew | drawn |
| Eat | ate | eaten |
| Fall | fell | fallen |
| Give | gave | given |
| Hurt | hurt | hurt |
| Know | knew | known |
| Lie | lay | lain |
| Meet | met | met |
| Pay | paid | paid |
| Ride | rode | ridden |
| spend | spent | spent |
| See | saw | seen |
| Take | took | taken |
B. Fill in the appropriate irregular verbs:
| Present | Past | Past Participle |
| write | wrote | written |
| teach | taught | taught |
| swim | swam | swum |
| bring | brought | brought |
| speak | spoke | spoken |
| swear | swore | sworn |
| go | went | gone |
| grow | grew | grown |
| keep | kept | kept |
| run | ran | run |
| fly | flew | flown |
| freeze | froze | frozen |
| break | broke | broken |
| drive | drove | driven |
| bite | bit | bitten |
| blow | blew | blown |
C. Read the instructions carefully and write short sentences accordingly:
i. Past tense of catch
ii. Present of bought
iii. Past participle of stick
iv. Past tense of build
v. Present tense of leave
D. Underline the correct word in the brackets:
i. _____Gracy (wear/wore/worn) her favourite frock yesterday.
ii. Lalitha has___ (took/take/taken) medical leave and is expected to join duty next Monday.
iii. According to Roy, within a month, the bamboo plant had ___________(grew/grow/grown) five inches.
iv. Before her demise, Cynthia's grandmother______ (gives/gave/given) her golden wristwatch to her.
v. Kiran and Karun__________ (choose/chose/chosen) a beautiful shade of
green to be painted on their bed room wall.
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