IRREGULAR VERBS

What are irregular verbs?

Irregular verbs are common verbs in the English language that do not

follow the simple system of adding “d” or “ed” to the end of the word 
to form the past tense. That means the spellings can be a little tricky. 

Some irregular verbs follow patterns, such as drink–drank, spring–sprang,
know-knew, and blow-blew but you can’t use those patterns with 
predictability.Unfortunately, learning irregular verbs means memorization.

Examples of irregular verbs

Base Form	Past Simple	Past Participle
awake	awoke	awoken
be	was, were	been
beat	beat	beaten
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bend	bent	bent
bet	bet	bet
bid	bid	bid
bite	bit	bitten
blow	blew	blown
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
broadcast	broadcast	broadcast
build	built	built
burn	burned/burnt	burned/burnt
buy	bought	bought
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
cut	cut	cut