IrregularTenseAndPronouns
Irregular Tense
| Present | Past | Past Participle |
Present | Past | Past Participle |
Present | Past | Past Participle |
Present | Past | Past Participle |
Present | Past | Past Participle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| arise | arose | arisen | deal | dealt | dealt | keep | kept | kept | saw | sawed | sawn/sawed | take | took | taken |
| awake | awoke | awoken | dig | dug | dug | kneel | knelt | knelt | say | said | said | teach | taught | taught |
| be | was/were | been | do | did | done | know | knew | known | see | saw | seen | tear | tore | torn |
| bear | bore | born(e) | draw | drew | drawn | lay | laid | laid | sell | sold | sold | tell | told | told |
| beat | beat | beaten | dream | dreamt/dreamed | dreamt/dreamed | lead | led | led | send | sent | sent | think | thought | thought |
| become | became | become | drink | drank | drunk | lean | leant/leaned | leant/leaned | set | set | set | throw | threw | thrown |
| begin | began | begun | drive | drove | driven | learn | learnt/learned | learnt/learned | sew | sewed | sewn/sewed | understand | understood | understood |
| bend | bent | bent | eat | ate | eaten | leave | left | left | shake | shook | shaken | wake | woke | woken |
| bet | bet | bet | fall | fell | fallen | lent | lent | lent | shall | should | … | wear | wore | worn |
| bind | bound | bound | feed | fed | fed | lie (in bed) | lay | lain | shed | shed | shed | weep | wept | wept |
| bite | bit | bitten | feel | felt | felt | lie (to not tell the truth) | lied | lied | shine | shone | shone | will | would | … |
| bleed | bled | bled | fight | fought | fought | light | lit/lighted | lit/lighted | shoot | shot | shot | win | won | won |
| blow | blew | blown | find | found | found | lose | lost | lost | show | showed | shown | wind | wound | wound |
| break | broke | broken | fly | flew | flown | make | made | made | shrink | shrank | shrunk | write | wrote | written |
| breed | bred | bred | forbid | forbade | forbidden | may | might | … | shut | shut | shut | |||
| bring | brought | brought | forget | forgot | forgotten | mean | meant | meant | sing | sang | sung | |||
| broadcast | broadcast | broadcast | forgive | forgave | forgiven | meet | met | met | sink | sank | sunk | |||
| build | built | built | get | got | got | mow | mowed | mown/mowed | sit | sat | sat | |||
| burn | burnt/burned | burnt/burned | give | gave | given | must | had to | … | sleep | slept | slept | |||
| burst | burst | burst | go | went | gone | overtake | overtook | overtaken | slide | slid | slid | |||
| buy | bought | bought | grind | ground | ground | pay | paid | paid | smell | smelt | smelt | |||
| can | could | … (been able) | grow | grew | grown | put | put | put | sow | sowed | sown/sowed | |||
| catch | caught | caught | hang | hung | hung | read | read | read | speak | spoke | spoken | |||
| choose | chose | chosen | have | had | had | ride | rode | ridden | spell | spelt/spelled | spelt/spelled | |||
| cling | clung | clung | hear | heard | heard | ring | rang | rung | spend | spent | spent | |||
| come | came | come | hide | hid | hidden | rise | rose | risen | spill | spilt/spilled | spilt/spilled | |||
| cost | cost | cost | hit | hit | hit | run | ran | run | spit | spat | spat | |||
| creep | crept | crept | hold | held | held | spread | spread | spread | ||||||
| cut | cut | cut | hurt | hurt | hurt | stand | stood | stood | ||||||
| steal | stole | stolen | ||||||||||||
| stick | stuck | stuck | ||||||||||||
| sting | stung | stung | ||||||||||||
| stink | stank | stunk | ||||||||||||
| strike | struck | struck | ||||||||||||
| swear | swore | sworn | ||||||||||||
| sweep | swept | swept | ||||||||||||
| swell | swelled | swollen/swelled | ||||||||||||
| swim | swam | swum | ||||||||||||
| swing | swung | swung | ||||||||||||
| ### Irregular Pronouns |
| SINGULAR | PLURAL | SINGULAR | PLURAL | SINGULAR | PLURAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US -> I | IX -> ICES | NO CHANGE | |||
| alumnus | alumni | appendix | appendices | deer | deer |
| cactus | cacti | index | indeces/indexes | fish | fish |
| focus | foci/focuses | matrix | matrices/matrixes | means | means |
| fungus | fungi/funguses | EAU -> EAUX | offspring | offspring | |
| nucleus | nuclei | beau | beaux | series | series |
| radius | radii | bureau | bureaus/bureaux | sheep | sheep |
| stimulus | stimuli | tableau | tableaux/tableaus | species | species |
| IS -> ES | *** -> EN | OO -> EE | |||
| axis | axes | child | children | oot | feet |
| analysis | analyses | man | men | goose | geese |
| basis | bases | ox | oxen | tooth | teeth |
| crisis | crises | woman | women | A -> AE | |
| diagnosis | diagnoses | *** -> A | antenna | antennae/antennas | |
| ellipsis | ellipses | bacterium | bacteria | formula | formulae/formulas |
| hypothesis | hypotheses | corpus | corpora | nebula | nebulae |
| oasis | oases | criterion | criteria | vertebra | vertebrae |
| paralysis | paralyses | curriculum | curricula | vita | vitae |
| parenthesis | parentheses | datum | data | OUSE -> ICE | |
| synthesis | syntheses | genus | genera | louse | lice |
| synopsis | synopses | medium | media | mouse | mice |
| thesis | theses | memorandum | memoranda | ||
| phenomenon | phenomena | ||||
| A -> E | stratum | strata | |||
| lasagna | lasagne | ||||
| ### Verb + ing |
| normal | normal +ing |
|---|---|
| just +ing | |
| cry | crying |
| do | doing |
| find | finding |
| laugh | laughing |
| wash | washing |
| -e +ing | |
| dare | daring |
| die | dying |
| choose | choosing |
| hide | hiding |
| lose | losing |
| lie | lying |
| live | living |
| arise | arising |
| become | becoming |
| have | having |
| + * ing | |
| cut | cutting |
| fit | fitting |
| ban | banning |
| chat | chatting |
| let | letting |
| get | getting |
| plan | planning |
| -ie + ying | |
| die | dying |
| lie | lying |
| [[BasicsOfEnglishGrammar]] |