Fundamental of Irregular Verbs with Examples

Tap to Read ➤ In this story, we'll learn about some important irregular verbs in detail. So, let's begin!

As the name suggests, irregular verbs are verbs that have a unique past tense and past participle forms.

As they are all a little bit different, irregular verbs are one of the most challenging parts of the modern English language.

While the past and past participle form of a regular verb, 'call' is 'called', the one for an irregular verb, 'sleep' is 'slept'.

Now let us check out some more examples of irregular verbs.

Base: become Simple Past Tense: became Past Participle: become

Base: sing Simple Past Tense: sang Past Participle: sung

Base: be Present Tense: am, is, are Simple Past Participle: was, were Past Participle: been

Strong vs. weak verbs: Strong verbs change their vowels in the past tense. Weak verbs keep their vowel the same in the past tense.

Have a look at some of the irregular verbs: 'arise', 'awake', 'beat', 'begin', 'come', 'deal', 'eat', 'flee', 'fly', 'go', 'have', 'let', etc.

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