English Grammar in 3 days: Learners of English by OULGHRINI AYOUB

Author:OULGHRINI, AYOUB [OULGHRINI, AYOUB]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2020-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

Today I watch the race.

I am watching the race.

Yesterday I watched the race. I have watched the race every day.

This first group of verbs is called regular verbs. All regular verbs display the same pattern of predictable changes.

The second group does not follow a regular pattern. Verb forms in this group change for no apparent reason. There is no obvious pattern you can apply when learning them.

Irregular Verb Examples:

We eat hamburgers.

We are eating hamburgers. Yesterday we ate hamburgers. We have eaten hamburgers every day.

This second group includes verbs that are not regular. They are called irregular verbs.

All verbs in the English language can be divided into two groups:

regular verbs and irregular verbs.

Most English verbs are regular. Irregular verbs have verb forms that require memorization before you can use them correctly. There is no easy way to explain their changes and no way to avoid memorizing their verb forms.

Let’s use what we have learned so far to build sentences.

4.5 The Four Principal Parts of a Verb

When you want to express an idea, you usually start with a noun or pronoun that will become the subject of your sentence. Once you know your subject, you need to state what the subject does.

Every sentence must have a subject and a verb.

Verbs can take many different forms. In English grammar, there is a system for all the different verb forms you might want to use when building sentences: The Four Principal Parts of a Verb. It is a framework that will help you to correctly make or identify the different forms of verbs you might need to express your ideas.

All English verbs have four principal parts.

The following example shows the four principal parts of the verb to go . Examples:

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