Lesson Twenty-eight:
Irregular Verbs
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In Lesson Twenty-seven, you learned how a regular verb changes from one tense to another in English. Irregular verbs are more difficult. These types of verbs are hard to use because of the way they change when they are conjugated. In some cases, they don’t change at all. The verbs "be ," "do ," and "have, " in particular, can be very difficult.
This lesson is in four parts. This first part shows how an irregular verb such as "go" changes from one verb tense to another.
The verb "go" is a very popular irregular verb:
go singular plural I go We go You go You go He goes She goes They go It goes singular
plural
I went
We went
You went
You went
He went
She went
They went
It went
singular
plural
I will go
We will go
You will go
You will go
He will go
She will go
They will go
It will go
singular
plural
I am going
We are going
You are going
You are going
He is going
She is going
They are going
It is going
singular
plural
I was going
We were going
You were going
You were going
He was going
She was going
They were going
It was going
singular
plural
I will be going
We will be going
You will be going
You will be going
He will be going
She will be going
They will be going
It will be going
singular
plural
I have gone
We have gone
You have gone
You have gone
He has gone
She has gone
They have gone
It has gone
singular
plural
I had gone
We had gone
You had gone
You had gone
He had gone
She had gone
They had gone
it had gone
singular
plural
I will have gone
We will have gone
You will have gone
You will have gone
He will have gone
She will have gone
They will have gone
It will have gone
singular
plural
I have been going
We have been going
You have been going
You have been going
He has been going
She has been going
They have been going
It has been going
singular
plural
I had been going
We had been going
You had been going
You had been going
He had been going
She had been going
They had been going
It had been going
future perfect continuous tense (Don’t worry too much about learning this tense. Few people use it.)
singular
plural
I will have been going
We will have been going
You will have been going
You will have been going
He will have been going
She will have been going
They will have been going
It will have been going
Practice
Directions: Write the main verb using the correct tense.
go
1. I _________ to the store almost every day. (present)
2. She _______ _________ to Las Vegas many times. (present perfect tense)
3. They ________ ________ to their friend’s house later. (future)
4. Bill ________ _________ to several schools before he found one he really liked. (past perfect)
5. The truck ________ ________ over the speed limit when it was stopped by a police officer. (past continuous tense)
Next: Lesson Twenty-nine
Using numbers and nouns to form adjectives
