English verbs

English verbs have three main forms:
Infinitive | 1. Base Form | 2. Simple Past | 3. Past Participle (3rd form) |
to cook | cook | cooked | Cooked |
to do | do | did | done |
to eat | eat |ate | eaten |
Past participles for regular verbs are also the same as the past tense (add –ed).
Base Form | Simple Past | Past Participle (3rd form) | Passive Sentence |
solve | solved | solved |The problem is solved. |
carry | carried | carried | The heavy boxes are carried by Moby. |
Many past participles for irregular verbs are the same as the past tense.
Base Form | Simple Past |Past Participle (3rd form) | Passive Sentence |
make | made | made | The pizza is made by Moby. |
cut
put | cut
put | cut
put | The sandwich is cut in two pieces.
Apples are put in the bowl. |build | built | built | The houses are built very fast. |
buy
catch | bought
caught | bought
caught | The food is bought by my mom.
The thieves are caught by the police. |
There are manyirregular verbs with irregular past participles, and those have to be memorized. It is easiest to remember them in groups that follow the same spelling pattern.
Base Form | Simple Past | Past Participle(3rd form) |
Past Participle ends in -en |
bite | bit | bitten |
eat | ate | eaten |
forget | forgot | forgotten |
get | got | gotten |
give | gave | given |
ride | rode | ridden |speak | spoke | spoken |
take | took | taken |
write | wrote | written |
Past Participle vowel changes from a to u |
drink | drank | drunk |
sing | sang | sung |
swim | swam | swum |
PastParticiple changes from ew to own |
blow | blew | blown |
fly | flew | flown |
grow | grew | grown |
know | knew | known |
throw | threw | thrown |
Past Participle changes from ore to orn |wear | wore | worn |
Past Simple and Past Participles are very different |
do | did | done |
see | saw | seen |
go | went | gone |
Some verbs cannot be used in the passive because they...