What is an irregular verb ?

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What is an irregular verb ?

An irregular verb is a verb that does not follow the usual rules for forming its past tense and past participle.

Regular verb:

• Add -ed to form the past tense.


• Example:
  walk → walked
  play → played

Irregular verb:

• The past tense and past participle change unpredictably (no fixed rule).


• Examples:




• go → went → gone


• eat → ate → eaten


• take → took → taken


• see → saw → seen

Why are they called “irregular” ?

Because they don’t follow the "regular" -ed rule, so you have to memorize their forms individually.