sábado, 19 de septiembre de 2020

Tips to Learn Irregular Verbs in English

Regular verbs have an established pattern through all their tenses. Usually, the only thing you have to do to form one is add -ed at the end of the word and that’s it. For example: Play - played / study- studied

Irregular verbs, on the other hand, Don’t follow a pattern at all. You can recognize them because they look so different in the past tense. Some examples:

Write - wrote - written / Go - went - gone

Here you have an irregular verb list of the most commonly used verbs.

Top tips to learn irregular verbs

Group them together!

Irregular verbs don’t follow any rules, and that makes them really hard to remember. Some of them, though, have a similar pattern. Instead of learning them in alphabetical order, put them in similar groups. How you do it depends on you, but here are some ideas:

- They stay the same in each form (split, upset, up, shut, cut).

- They stay the same in past tense and past participle (keep, shoot, bring, buy, build).

- They change in each form (be, break, flow, begin)

Here you can download a list of irregular verbs in groups:

https://yourclassathome.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/irregularverbsingroups1.pdf

Memorize the most common irregular verbs first

Instead of going through a list of irregular verbs, focus on the most commonly used words first.

Find, found, found
Go, went, gone
Fell, felt, felt
Come, came, come
Know, knew, known
Say, said, said
Get, got, gotten
Give, gave, given
Become, became, become
See, saw, seen

Learn in sentences

It is easier to remember the words when they’re part of a sentence of a phrase. Learn words by putting them into sentences. This way, you will also learn how to use them correctly.

To learn the word see, for example, you can use sentences like this: “I see the bee, I saw the snow, but I’ve never seen a bee in the snow!”

Be creative—the weirder the sentences are, the easier they will be to remember.

Use the internet

Here’s a list of some online resources:

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/verb_wheel/

http://eslgamesworld.com/members/games/ClassroomGames/Quizshow/Irregular%20Past%20Simple%20Quiz%20Show/index.html

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/past-simple-irregular-verbs

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/verbs/5.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXoI86sk77Y

Get familiar with them

The more you expose yourself to irregular verbs, the faster you will memorize them. So, read as much as you can, watch more television in English and listen to podcasts or songs.

Use your dictionary

If you’re not sure whether a verb is irregular or not, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary entry will provide the past tense and past participle of the word so you can decide if it’s irregular or regular.

Apply all of these tips, and you will learn irregular verbs easly!