SET VI ESL 1b

VERB GROUPS

IRREGULAR PAST TENSES

I. bring - brought, catch - caught , fight - fought , teach - taught , think - thought , buy - bought ,

II. beat - beat, cost - cost, cut - cut, fit - fit, hurt - hurt, hit - hit, let - let, put - put, quit - quit, set - set, shut - shut,

III. blow - blew, draw - drew, fly - flew, grow - grew, know - knew, see - saw,

IV. bind - bound, find - found, grind - ground, wind - wound,

V. begin - began, drink - drank, ring - rang , run - ran, shrink -shrank, sing - sang, sink - sank, sit - sat, spit - spat, spring -sprang, stink - stank, swim - swam,

VI. bite - bit, hide - hid, light - lit, slide - slid,

VII. bend - bent, build - built, lend - lent, send - sent, spend - spent,

VIII. break - broke, choose - chose, dive - dove, drive - drove, freeze - froze, ride - rode, rise - rose, sell - sold, shine - shone, speak - spoke, steal - stole, swear - swore, tell - told, tear - tore, wake - woke, wear - wore, write - wrote,

IX. become - became, come - came, eat - ate, forgive - forgave, give - gave, lie - lay,

X. cling - clung, dig - dug, fling - flung, hang - hung, spin - spun, stick - struck, sting - stung, strike - struck, string - strung, swing - swung, win - won,

XI. bleed -bled, breed - bred, creep - crept, deal - dealt, dream - dreamt, fall - fell, feed - fed, feel - felt, flee - fled, hear - heard, hold - held, keep - kept , lead - led, leave - left, mean - meant, meet - met, read - read, XII. lay - laid, pay - paid, say - said,

OTHERS: can - could, forget - forgot, get - got, go - went , have - had, lose - lost, make - made, shoot - shot, stand - stood, take - took, understand - understood,