Irregular Verbs

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Lesson Twenty Eight

In Lesson Twenty-seven, you learned how a regular verb changes from one tense to another in English. Irregular verbs are more difficult. These types of verbs are hard to use because of the way they change when they are conjugated. In some cases, they don’t change at all. The verbs “be,” “do,” and “have,” in particular, can be very difficult.

This lesson is in four parts. This first part shows how an irregular verb such as “go” changes from one verb tense to another.

The verb “go” is a very popular irregular verb:

go
simple present tense
singular	plural
I go	We go
You go	You go
He goes
She goes	They go
It goes
simple past tense
singular	plural
I went	We went
You went	You went
He went
She went	They went
It went
simple future tense
singular	plural
I will go	We will go
You will go	You will go
He will go
She will go	They will go
It will go
present continuous tense
singular	plural
I am going	We are going
You are going	You are going
He is going
She is going	They are going
It is going
past continuous tense
singular	plural
I was going	We were going
You were going	You were going
He was going
She was going	They were going
It was going
future continuous tense
singular	plural
I will be going	We will be going
You will be going	You will be going
He will be going
She will be going	They will be going
It will be going
present perfect tense
singular	plural
I have gone	We have gone
You have gone	You have gone
He has gone
She has gone	They have gone
It has gone
past perfect tense
singular	plural
I had gone	We had gone
You had gone	You had gone
He had gone
She had gone	They had gone
it had gone
future perfect tense

singular

plural

I will have gone

We will have gone

You will have gone

He will have gone

She will have gone

They will have gone

It will have gone

present perfect continuous tense

singular

plural

I have been going

We have been going

You have been going

He has been going

She has been going

They have been going

It has been going

past perfect continuous tense

singular

plural

I had been going

We had been going

You had been going

He had been going

She had been going

They had been going

It had been going

future perfect continuous tense (Don’t worry too much about learning this tense. Few people use it.)

singular

plural

I will have been going

We will have been going

You will have been going

He will have been going

She will have been going

They will have been going

It will have been going

modal verbs: ______ go

past tense modal: ______ have gone

infinitive: to go

gerund: going

Practice

Directions: Write the main verb using the correct tense.
go 1. I _________ to the store almost every day. (present) 2. She _______ _________ to Las Vegas many times. (present perfect tense) 3. They ________ ________ to their friend’s house later. (future) 4. Bill ________ _________ to several schools before he found one he really liked. (past perfect) 5. The truck ________ ________ over the speed limit when it was stopped by a police officer. (past continuous tense)

Directions: Write the main verb using the correct tense.

1. I _________ to the store almost every day. (present)

2. She _______ _________ to Las Vegas many times. (present perfect tense)

3. They ________ ________ to their friend’s house later. (future)

4. Bill ________ _________ to several schools before he found one he really liked. (past perfect)

5. The truck ________ ________ over the speed limit when it was stopped by a police officer. (past continuous tense)

Next: Lesson Twenty-nine

Using numbers and nouns to form adjectives