Verbs - Regular

This lesson is all about regular verbs

irregular verbs are known as regular verbs because they all have the same way of forming the present participle the past tense and the past participle and these are formed from the base of the verb and you get to the base of the verb by taking the verb and subtracting the word to form it to give you the base and the base form is also used when forming the present tense but we’ll see examples of all of these with the present participle is formed by adding i n g to the base form and depending on how the base form ends it might be necessary to make a minor modification the past tense is formed by adding D or E D to the base form and if the base form ends in an e we only added D to it and the past participle is formed in the same way as the past tense.

let’s take the word to play as our first example though from the verb to play the base form is then play present participle is therefore playing a the boy is playing in the garden the past tense is then played so the base form plus E D the boy played in the garden and as we said early the past participle is the same as the past tense so it is also played the boy had played in the garden of look at the verb to dance as our second example the base form is then dance present participle is dancing and because it ends in the knee we take the E away before adding I N G but the girl is dancing in her room the past tense is danced the girl danced in her room and here we only added the D because the base form already ends in an e the past participle is also danced the same as the past tense for regular verbs the girl had danced in her room.

when we formed the present tense we use the same as the base form except for 3rd person singular which is he she and it.

And in those cases we add an s to the base form ie we u they play B she it plays or EI we you or they dance if she or it dances and this is basic all we have to say for regular verbs.

The good news is is that regular verbs are regular so they always behave as we’ve seen the bad news is it’s not always easy to tell when a verb is regular or irregular This is one of those cases where you have to see it learn it and use it and then everything will be fine and you will understand it.