Irregular Verbs

Instructions: Print a copy of this list of irregular verbs.  Fill in the forms of the simple past tense for each irregular verb.  Compare your list to the complete list at Susan Jones' Complete List of Irregular Verbs.  Then, make a list of the words that you need to learn.   Of course, you also need to learn the meanings of the words.  You can look them up in the online Newbury House Dictionary
 
#1 Base Form
#2 Simple Past 
#3 Past Participle
awake    awoken 
be   been 
bear   born 
beat   beaten 
become   become 
begin   begun 
bend   bent 
bet   bet 
bid   bid 
bind   bound 
bite   bitten 
bleed   bled 
blow   blown 
break   broken 
breed   bred 
bring   brought 
broadcast   broadcast
build   built 
burn   burned/burnt 
burst   burst 
buy   bought 
cast   cast 
catch   caught 
choose   chosen 
cling   clung 
come   come 
cost   cost 
creep   crept 
cut   cut 
deal   dealt 
dig   dug 
dive   dived 
do   done 
draw   drawn 
dream    dreamed/dreamt
drive   driven 
drink    drunk
eat   eaten 
fall   fallen 
feed   fed 
feel   felt 
fight   fought 
find   found 
fit   fit 
flee   fled 
fling   flung 
fly   flown 
forbid   forbidden
forget   forgotten 
forgive   forgiven 
forsake   forsaken 
freeze   frozen 
get   gotten 
give   given 
go   gone 
grind   ground 
grow   grown 
hang   hung 
have   had 
hear   heard 
hide   hidden 
hit   hit 
hold   held 
hurt   hurt 
keep   kept 
kneel   knelt 
knit   knit 
know   known 
lay   laid 
lead   led 
leap   leaped/leapt 
learn   learned/learnt
leave   left 
lend   lent 
let   let 
lie   lain 
light   lighted 
lose   lost 
make   made 
mean   meant 
meet   met 
misspell   misspelled/misspelt
mistake   mistaken 
mow   mowed/mown 
owe   owed 
pay   paid 
prove   proved/proven 
put   put 
quit   quit 
read   read 
rid   rid 
ride   ridden 
ring   rung 
rise   risen 
run   run 
saw   sawed/sawn 
say   said 
see   seen 
seek   sought 
sell   sold 
send   sent 
set   set 
sew   sewed/sewn 
shake   shaken 
shave   shaved/shaven 
shear   sheared/shorn 
shed   shed 
shine   shone 
shoot   shot 
show   showed/shown 
shrink   shrunk 
shut   shut 
sing   sung 
sink   sunk 
sit   sat 
sleep   slept 
slide   slid 
sling   slung 
slit   slit 
sow   sowed/sown 
speak   spoken 
speed   sped 
spend   spent 
spill   spilled/spilt
spin   spun 
spit   spit 
split   split 
spread   spread 
spring   sprung 
stand   stood 
steal   stolen 
stick   stuck 
sting   stung
strike   struck 
string   strung 
strive   striven 
swear   sworn 
sweep   swept
swell   swelled/swollen 
swim   swum 
swing   swung 
take   taken 
teach   taught 
tear   torn 
tell   told 
think   thought 
thrive   thrived
throw   thrown 
thrust   thrust 
tread   trodden
understand   understood
uphold   upheld
upset   upset
wake   woken 
wear   worn 
weave   woven 
wed   wedded, wed
weep   wept 
wind   wound 
win   won 
withhold   withheld
withstand   withstood 
wring   wrung 
write   written 


Return to Lists of Grammar Lists Main Menu.

Return to English Grammar on the Web menu.


Pat Byrd

Department of Applied Linguistics & ESL
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30302
patbyrd@gsu.edu & tmcklin@gsu.edu
Telephone: 404-651-2934