Irregular Verbs

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Chapter 17

• Irregular Verbs

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Irregular Verbs

• An irregular verb shows past tense by using a
  different form of the main verb.
• The past tense of regular verbs is usually formed
  by adding ..
• ed or d

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Irregular Verbs

• An irregular verb does not end with ed in the
  past tense.
• Examples
• Run ran
• Sing sang
• Think thought
• Break broke
• Know knew

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Irregular Verbs

• Tommy brought cotton candy to the party.
• Brought
• Sandy ate two hotdogs at the fair.
• Ate
• Joe began running around the room after lunch.
• began

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Irregular Verbs

• Change the present tense verb to past tense.
• The class begin writing in their journals.
• The class began writing in their journals.
• The teachers eat in the lunchroom.
• The teachers ate in the lunchroom.

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Irregular Verbs

• She be sick on Monday.
• She was sick on Monday.
• The teacher know why she was absent.
• The teacher knew why she was absent.
• Her friends begin taking notes for her.
• Her friends began taking notes for her.

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Irregular Verbs

• Some irregular verbs use n or en to form the past
  tense with a helping verb.
• The past-tense form with a helping verb is
  different from the past-tense form without a
  helping verb.
• Example
• blow blew have blown
• do did have done

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Irregular Verbs

• You try it!
• Present Tense
• Speak
• Past Tense
• Spoke
• Past Helping Verb
• Have spoken

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Irregular Verbs

• The boy grow since last year.
• Has grown
• The girl speak in class yesterday.
• Spoke
• We take our bikes to the park.
• took

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Irregular Verbs

• The clowns do tricks at the circus yesterday.
• did
• The elephant fall when he balanced the ball.
• Fell
• The crown grow since last weeks show.
• Has grown

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Commonly Misused Verbs

• Use the verbs lie/lay, rise/raise, and sit/set
  correctly.
• Here are the rules!!
• The subject of a sentence can lie down, sit down,
  or rise up.

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Commonly Misused Verbs

• John will lie down on his bed.
• Tammy will sit in her favorite chair.
• The sun will rise before 600 AM.

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Commonly Misused Verbs

• Next rule
• A subject lays down something, sets down
  something, or raises up something.
• John lays down his book on the table.
• Tammy sets down her coffee cup.
• Jack raises the window in the morning.

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Commonly Misused Verbs

• You try it!
• Sue will (lie, lay) down on the bed.
• Lie
• John will (rise, raise) the flag.
• Raise
• Tom will (sit, set) down on the sofa.
• sit

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Commonly Misused Verbs

• Mike will (lie, lay) down his luggage on the
  floor.
• Lay
• Dan will (rise, raise) at 500 from his nap.
• Rise
• Lee will (sit, set) the plates on the table for
  dinner.
• set

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Commonly Misused Verbs

• Remember the rules for changing tense!
• Lie
• Lay
• Has lain
• Lay
• Laid
• Has laid

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Commonly Misused Verbs

• Rise
• Rose
• Has risen
• Raise
• Raised
• Has risen

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Commonly Misused Verbs

• Sit
• Sat
• Has sat
• Set
• Set
• Has set

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Commonly Misused Verbs

• See if you can do these.
• She (laid, lay) the cupcakes on the table.
• Laid
• He (set, sat) the cake there this morning.
• Set
• They (rose, raised) the window last night.
• raised

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Good Job!