Lesson 4 - Irregular Verbs study aide

I have made a study aide to help you with the the irregular verbs that you didn't know the meaning of in English. Try to use the pictures to memorise the meaning to help you to recall the verbs.

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bring-- brought-- brought
buy-- bought-- bought
fight-- fought-- fought
seek-- sought-- sought
think-- thought-- thought

aught
catch-- caught-- caught
teach-- taught-- taught

Verbs that don't change

cost-- cost-- cost
cut-- cut-- cut
hit-- hit-- hit
hurt-- hurt-- hurt
let-- let-- let
put-- put-- put
quit-- quit-- quit
set-- set-- set
shut-- shut-- shut

Different Past Participles (PP) Ending in ‘N’

List 1: There are several verbs that form pasts similar to ‘know’:
blow-- blew—blown
fly-- flew-- flown
grow-- grew-- grown
know-- knew—known (top 20)
throw-- threw-- thrown
but show-- showed-- shown OR showed


List 2: Verb form changes like ‘write,’ with a vowel change from long ‘i’ to long ‘o’ (except bite and hide) to short ‘i’+ consonant(s) + ‘en:’
bite-- bit-- bitten
drive-- drove—driven
hide—hid-- hidden
ride-- rode-- ridden
rise-- rose-- risen
(as well as write-- wrote—written from the top 20)


List 3 like list 2 except with various vowels (note that ‘strike’ and ‘wake’ often use a past participle that doesn’t end in –en, and ‘wake’ is sometimes used as a regular verb):

break-- broke-- broken
choose-- chose-- chosen
fall-- fell-- fallen
freeze-- froze-- frozen
shake-- shook-- shaken
speak-- spoke-- spoken
steal-- stole—stolen
strike-- struck-- struck (or stricken: “he was stricken with polio.”)
wake-- woke  woken (or waked or awakened)
eat-- ate-- eaten
 get-- got-- gotten;
forget-- forgot-- forotten
give-- gave—given;
forgive-- forgave-- forgiven

List #4 shows a consistent short vowel change: i> a> u:
begin-- began-- begun
drink-- drank-- drunk
ring-- rang-- rung
sing-- sang-- sung
swim-- swam—swum

‘T’ endings; Same Past & PPs 
 
List #5  Long to short ‘e’-- eep> ept> ept:

keep-- kept—kept
sleep-- slept-- slept
sweep-- swept-- swept
weep-- wept—wept

List #6 These verbs that end in ‘end’ change to a ‘t’ ending in the past (note that ‘end’ and ‘mend’ do not follow the pattern, but are regular-- ended/ mended):
bend-- bent-- bent
lend-- lent-- lent
send-- sent-- sent
spend-- spent-- spent

List #7 Other pasts ending in ‘t’ with the same past participles:
build-- built-- built
lose-- lost-- lost
mean-- meant-- meant
meet-- met-- met
sit-- sat—sat
(& from the top 20: feel-- felt—felt; leave-- left—left)