In English, regular verbs form their past tense by adding -ed (or just -d if the base form ends in e). Examples: talk - talked; step - stepped; add - added; like - liked. Their past participle is the same as the past tense.
Irregular verbs make their past tense in a number of ways, and their past participle is often different from that. Examples: see - saw - seen; teach - taught - taught; run - ran - run; sing - sang - sung.
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Except for the Modal Verbs, all irregular verbs form the Present Simple Tense in the same manner as the regular ones.
The past tense of regular verbs is created by adding -ed. The past tense of irregular verbs doesn't have a pattern like regular verbs and so the past tense must simply be learned.
In the context of grammar, regular refers to a word or verb form that follows a predictable pattern or rule. For example, regular verbs in English add -ed to form the past tense. Irregular, on the other hand, describes words or verb forms that do not follow these patterns and must be memorized individually. Irregular verbs in English, for instance, have unique forms in the past tense, such as "go-went" or "come-came."
It is not irregular, in that it adds the typical -ed to form the past tense and past participle. However, it follows the pattern of several verbs that end in Y, where the Y is changed to i before adding -ed.(Some verbs ending with vowel-Y, e.g. buoy and guy, do not change the Y. The verb pay may be considered irregular in that paid adds only a D after changing the Y.)
REGULAR verbs, such as 'to jump', are conjugated according to standard rules of grammar, and the regular past simple tense is made by adding ~ed to the verb.e.g. 'I jump' becomes 'I jumped'Other examples of regular verbs:continue -> continuedcry -> criedwalk -> walkedseed -> seeded [as in seeding a lawn]IRREGULAR verbs, such as 'to feed', do not conform to the normal rules of grammar. They have special forms for the past simple tense e.g. I feed the birds, becomes I fed the birds, NOT I feeded the birds.Other exampes of irregular verbs:bring -> broughtcome -> camesing -> sangdo -> didFor more information, see Related links below.