Regular And Irregular Verbs

If we examine the different forms of certain verbs we shall see certain marked differences.

The verb love, without the use of other verb forms, gives love, loved, while the verb go gives go, went, gone.

We see that the forms of the verb love are formed regularly from a single root, while the verb go has an irregular formation for expressing its relations of time.

As these two verbs can fairly stand as types of different classes of verbs, we see that verbs are divided into two classes, called regular and irregular.

The following verbs are regular:

Present.	Past.	Past Participle.
attend	attended	attended
bake	baked	baked
crave	craved	craved
grant	granted	granted
land	landed	landed
rig	rigged	rigged
tie	tied	tied
walk	walked	walked

These verbs are irregular:

Present.	Past.	Past Participle.
arise	arose	arisen
begin	began	begun
come	came	come
fall	fell	fallen
grow	grew	grown
he	lay	lain
see	saw	seen
write	wrote	written

A study of these forms will show that:

1. The verbs in the first list form their past tense and past participle by adding d or ed to the present form of the verb.

2. We see that the past tense and past participle of the verb3 in the second list are not formed by adding d or ed to the present.

Note.__By some grammarians regular verbs are called weak verbs, and irregular verbs are called strong verbs.

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