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The 8 Top Tricks for Remembering Irregular English Verbs

1. Group common irregular verbs together

Irregular verbs don’t follow any rules, which is what makes them so hard to remember. But some irregular verbs follow a similar pattern. Instead of learning the verbs in alphabetical order, try putting them in similar groups.

How you group the verbs depends on whatever is easiest for you, but here are a few suggestions:

Verbs that remain the same in the present, past and past participle.

Examples: cost and set.

Verbs that are the same in the past forms, but not the present.

Examples: breed, bred and shoot, shot.

Verbs that end in -en in the past participle.

Examples: speak, spoken and wake, woken.

Look through the list of irregular verbs and find patterns of your own!

2. Learn all new vocabulary with its tense forms

You can make irregular verbs easier for yourself in the future by just learning them right from the beginning. Every time you learn a new verb, learn its tenses as well.

Don’t just learn that to steal means to take something without permission. You should also learn that its simple past tense is stole and its past participle is stolen.

3. Memorize the 10 most common irregular verbs first

Not all irregular verbs are commonly used. You might never use a word like broadcast, and you’ll probably only see the word abide as part of the phrase law-abiding citizen (that’s someone who follows the law).

Instead of going through the list in alphabetical order, focus on the most commonly used words first.

Start with these very common words (they’re listed as present, past, past participle):

Say, said, said

Go, went, gone

Come, came, come

Know, knew, known

Get, got, gotten

Give, gave, given

Become, became, become

Find, found, found

Think, thought, thought

See, saw, seen

That’s right, all these tiny but very important verbs are irregular! You’ll need to know their irregular forms to use them in everyday conversation.

4. Turn memorizing into a game

You might have no problem remembering the irregular verbs using flashcards, but if you’re having trouble why not turn it into a game?

There are a few games online that can make remembering the verbs fun and easy. The British Council has a quiz-like game, the MacMillan Dictionary has a verb wheel, and Quia has a game similar to Jeopardy.

You can even make your own game with index cards: write the verb and their past or past participle (or both) on separate index cards. Then turn all the cards over in front of you with their backs up.

Now you can play a memory game. Turn a card over, then another. If the two cards match, leave them face up. If they don’t, turn them back over and try again.

5. Learn in sentences
It might be easier to remember the words when they’re part of a sentence of a phrase. Learn words by putting them into sentences, and you’ll also be learning how to use them correctly.

To learn the word see, for example, you can use sentences like this: “I see the bee, I saw the snow, but I’ve never seen a bee in the snow!”

Be creative—the weirder the sentences are, the easier they will be to remember. You can use rhymes, keep the sentences short or create an entire story using as many verbs as you can. How you do it is up to you, as long as it helps you remember the verb forms.

6. Learn with songs
Another great way to give the words more meaning is through using music. You can find many songs for remembering irregular verbs on YouTube. Here are three of the best:

FluencyMC uses a catchy rap song to teach the forms of some of the most common irregular verbs.
This adorable cat video tells a story while teaching the verbs.
Schoolhouse Rock is a classic cartoon with fantastic music you’ll be singing for days after you hear it.
7. Leave lists where you can see them
Sometimes just memorizing is the best way to go. To make this easier for you, divide up the verbs in groups of 5 to 10 words (you can group them alphabetically, by how common they are or by the groups we suggested earlier in this article).

Write the verbs out on paper, and leave them in spots where you can see them throughout the day. Tape the list up behind your coffee maker, on your table, even on the bathroom wall! Looking at the list just a few minutes a day can be enough to remember them.

Once you feel that you’ve remembered the full list, move on to the next group of verbs.

8. Ask people to correct you
Nothing beats practicing—but practicing correctly is important too! Whenever you’re speaking to an English speaker, ask them to correct you if you make a mistake when you speak. This is great not just for irregular verbs, but for any of your English speaking.

Make sure you can accept their correction without getting upset or discouraged. Remember, they’re helping you!

After reading all these tips, that list of irregular verbs doesn’t look so scary anymore, does it?

How to Recognize an Irregular English Verb🎓
Knowing the history of irregular verbs is interesting, but it doesn’t help you learn them. To study irregular verbs, first you should understand what irregular verbs are.

Regular verbs always follow the same pattern. They look the same in the past and are easy to form. Usually all you have to do is add the letters -ed at the end of the word!

Here are some examples:

I work, I worked, I had worked.

He laughs, he laughed, he had laughed.

Irregular verbs, though, don’t follow that pattern. You can recognize them because they look so different in the past tense.

Some examples:

I write, I wrote, I had written.

He builds, he built, he had built.

An English verb is irregular when it doesn’t end in -ed in the simple past tense and past participle form. Not sure what those are? Here’s a simple way of looking at it:

The simple past tense describes any action that takes place before right now.
Regular verb: I worked for 40 hours last week.
Irregular verb: I spoke to my best friend yesterday.
The past participle is used in other English tenses that have an auxiliary (or “helping”) verb. For example, the past perfect tense uses the auxiliary verb “have” + the past participle of your main verb to describe an action that happened and ended in the past.
Regular verb: I had worked for the company for only 6 months when I decided to leave.
Irregular verb: I had spoken at over 50 schools by the time I turned

Change the Following Sentences in to passive Voice:
1- Please close the door.
2- Close the door.
3- Study your lessons.
4- Call him.
5- Leave me alone.

Change the Following Sentence in to passive Voice:
1- Please Close the door.
2- Close the door.
3- Study your lessons.
4- call him.
5- leave me alone.

Irregular Verbs

All new verbs in English are regular.

•I photocopied the report.
•She faxed it to me.
•They emailed everybody about it.
•I googled my name and got more than 20 000 responses.

There are approximately 180 irregular verbs. You don't need to learn all of them because some of these are very rare but many others are very useful and you do need to know them.
What's the easiest way to learn them? Some people think you should learn a list 'by heart'. Others 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. It is useful to write these verbs (or any vocabulary you want to learn) in sentences and learn those rather than the individual word.
Which is easier to learn?

•stick stuck stuck
•I stuck the photo into my album.

Another technique is to classify the irregular verbs into 4 categories.
1. All forms the same

•set set set
•cost cost cost

2. Similar sound groups

•beat beat beaten
•eat ate eaten
•blow blew blown
•throw threw thrown
•drink drank drunk
•sing sang sung
•speak spoke spoken
•wake woke woken

3. The second and third forms are the same.

•bend bent bent
•sleep slept slept
•spend spent spent
•bring brought brought
•buy bought bought
•teach taught taught
•have had had
•pay paid paid
•say said said

4. The "unclassifiables"

•come came come
•do did done
•go went gone
•show showed show

'Be' Verbs

A verb shows action or a state of being.

I go home. Home is my place to rest. I like the smell of my house. I feel totally relaxed. Home refreshes me. At home, I get ready for a new day.

"Be" verbs indicate a state of being.

Verbs must match subjects.

•I am a doctor.
•He is sleepy.
•We are here.
Negative sentences need ‘not' after the verb.

•I am not a doctor.
•He is not sleepy.
•We are not there.
The verb comes first in interrogative sentences.

•Am I a doctor?
•Is he sleepy?
•Are we there?
"Are not" (is not) can be shortened to "aren't" (isn't).

•He isn't sleepy.
•We aren't there.
Remember the variations of "be" verbs: