Regular verbs form their past and past participle by adding ed (d).
| Base Verb | Past | Past Participle |
| learn | learned | learned |
| study | studied | studied |
| cook | cooked | cooked |
| solve | solved | solved |
| ask | asked | asked |
| watch | watched | watched |
| listen | listened | listened |
Irregular verbs do not have definite rules, but there are a few patterns.
| Base Verb | Past | Past Participle |
| grow | grew | grown |
| know | knew | known |
| begin | began | begun |
| draw | drew | drawn |
| drive | drove | driven |
| fly | flew | flown |
| give | gave | given |
| speak | spoke | spoken |
| swim | swam | swum |
| go | went | gone |
| take | took | taken |
| find | found | found |
| spend | spent | spent |
| teach | taught | taught |
| pay | paid | paid |
| feel | felt | felt |
| buy | bought | bought |
| meet | met | met |
| have | had | had |
| feed | fed | fed |
| keep | kept | kept |
| cut | cut | cut |
| hit | hit | hit |
| set | set | set |
| shut | shut | shut |
| fit | fit | fit |
[Quiz 13.1]
Find the past and past participle forms of the following verbs using your dictionary:
bring
drink
think
tell
eat
make
beat
[13.1]
brought – brought
drank – drunk
thought – thought
told – told
ate – eaten
made – made
beat – beaten
drank – drunk
thought – thought
told – told
ate – eaten
made – made
beat – beaten