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Past simple & present perfect: irregular verbs
2014/12/23
One problem with using the past simple and the present perfect is that some verbs are regular (add ‘ed’ to the verb) and others are irregular (change the verb itself). Remembering all those irregular verbs is not easy. Let’s look at the most common irregular verbs in business English.
 
Task 1: Complete the table of irregular verbs.
became
become
 
leave
 
 
begin
 
 
let
 
 
bring
 
 
make
 
 
come
 
 
meet
 
 
do
 
 
pay
 
 
feel
 
 
put
 
 
find
 
 
read
 
 
get
 
 
say
 
 
give
 
 
see
 
seen
go
 
 
send
 
 
have
 
 
set
 
 
hear
 
 
take
 
 
hold
 
 
tell
 
 
keep
 
 
think
 
 
know
 
 
understand
 
 
   

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*2014/12/26更新
 
Task 1 Feedback:
Past simple & present perfect: irregular verbs
 
Here are the answers to the previous task:
become
became
become
leave
left
left
begin
began
begun
let
let
let
bring
brought
brought
make
made
made
come
came
come
meet
met
met
do
did
done
pay
paid
paid
feel
felt
felt
put
put
put
find
found
found
read
read
read
get
got
got/gotten
say
said
said
give
gave
given
see
saw
seen
go
went
gone/been
send
sent
sent
have
had
had
set
set
set
hear
heard
heard
take
took
taken
hold
held
held
tell
told
told
keep
kept
kept
think
thought
thought
know
knew
known
understand
understood
understood
 
* Notice that ‘learn’ can be regular ‘learned’ and irregular ‘learnt’. Chose whichever one you prefer to use. Americans like to make this verb regular: ‘learned’, but this is very vulgar.
 
* Notice that the spelling of ‘read’ is the same in all forms, but the pronunciation of the past simple and the p.p. is /red/.
 
* Notice that ‘be’ has two p.ps. ‘Gone’ means ‘go and stay’, ‘been’ means ‘go and return’. ‘He has gone to America’ means he is in America now. ‘He has been to America’ means he went to America but has returned and is here now.
 
* In British English, ‘got’ is the p.p. of ‘get’. In American English, ‘gotten’ is the p.p. of ‘get’. However, in International English, ‘gotten’ is quite rare. You do not need to learn it.
 
*Some of these you will have got right, some you will have got wrong. Put a tick next to the ones you got wrong and focus on learning those. I’m afraid there is no easy way to do this, no trick I can give you. You just have to learn them!
 
  
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