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Bend the verb: "to have" in present, past and particple.
Infinitive: "to have"
PRESENT
I have
You have
He/she/it has
We have
You have
They have
PAST:
I/you/he/she/it/we/you/they had
PARTICIPLE:
Present: having
Past: had
Why is this sentence incorrect?
"Yesterday, he catched the ball during the game."
Correct: caught
"Yesterday, he caught the ball during the game."
Infinitive: "to catch"
PRESENT: CATCH
except he/she/it catches
PAST: CAUGHT
PARTICIPLE:
Present: catching
Past: caught
Translate the sentence:
"I går skrev han et langt brev til sin ven."
Correct: Yesterday he wrote a long letter to his friend.
Find the irregulars!
The Beatles, A Day in the Life
"I read the news today, oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph"
correct: read, made, was, had, saw
Which verb is the odd one out?
ring, sing, swear, sink
Correct: swear
The other irregular verbs follows the rule for the vowel-change.
Bend the irregular verb: "to be" in present tense, past and participle.
Infinitive: to be
PRESENT:
I am
You are
He/she/it is
We are
You are
They are
PAST:
I was
You were
He/she/it was
We were
You were
They were
PARTICIPLE:
Present: being
Present: been
Why is this sentence incorrect?
"She runned five miles before breakfast."
Correct: ran
Infinitive: to run
PRESENT: RUN
except he/she/it runs
PAST: ran
PATICIPLE:
Present: running
Past: run
Translate this:
"Katten drak sit mælk af skålen og lagde sig til at sove."
Correct: The cat drank its milk from the bowl and lay down to sleep.
Find the irregulars!
"Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman:
You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make somethin'
Me, myself, I got nothing to prove
Correct: got, make, get, got, make, got
Which verb is the odd one out?
mow, swell, keep, show
correct: keep
The other verbs function as regular verbs in simple past tense and reveal their irregularity in the past participle -n or -en (mown, swollen, shown), where as keep is irregular in simple past and past parciple (keep-> kept
->kept)
Bend the verb "to know" in present tense, past and participle.
Infinitive: to know
PRESENT:
I know
You know
He, she, it knows
We know
You know
They know
PAST: KNEW
PARTICIPLE:
Present: knowing
Past: known
Why is this sentence incorrect?
"Despite having swimming across the turbulent river twice before, the exhausted athlete struggled against the sudden undercurrent."
Correct: having swum
You can't have the present participle (swimming) directly after the helping verb "having", because the bending; have + ing implicates the action to be completed(), where as swimming indicates the action to be ongoing (present praticiple).
Translate this:
"Skønt direktøren tilbød personalet en ekstra bonus, tvivlede medarbejderne stadig på virksomhedens fremtid."
correct: Although the director offered the staff an extra bonus, the employees still doubted the company's future.
Translate this! Bonus point for knowing how many times each irregular word is used.
So Long, London, Taylor Swift:
I saw in my mind fairy lights through the mist
I kept calm and carried the weight of the rift
Pulled him in tighter each time he was driftin' away
My spine split from carrying us up the hill
Wet through my clothes, weary bones caught the chill
I stopped tryna make him laugh, stopped tryna drill the safe
Correct: saw, kept, was, split, caught, stopped x2
Which verb is the odd one out?
hit, read, cost, put
Correct: read
The other verbs are from the group, where they keep the same form.
Bend the words correctly in this sentence:"____ (to catch) a flying slice of pizza with one hand, the teacher ___ (to eat) it before anyone could notice."
"Catching a flying slice of pizza with one hand, the teacher ate it before anyone could notice"
What's wrong in this sentence?
"The bright neon sign was shininged through the thick fog, guiding lost travelers toward the diner."
Correct: shining
On the verb shininged from the sentence, there were the correct -ing ending, but added the -ed endning, which is used on regular verbs.
Translate this:
"Selvom whistlebloweren havde gemt de fortrolige dokumenter i et gammelt arkiv, fandt revisorerne hurtigt det afgørende bevis under deres gennemgang."
Correct: "Although the whistleblower had hidden the confidential documents inside an old archive, the auditors quickly found the crucial evidence during their review."
Find the irregulars! You an extra point for knowing how many times each irregular word is used.
Because You Loved Me, Celine Dion:
For all those times you stood by me
For all the truth that you made me see
For all the joy you brought to my life
For all the wrong that you made right
For every dream you made come true
For all the love I found in you
I'll be forever thankful, baby
You're the one who held me up
Never let me fall
You're the one who saw me through, through it all
Correct: stood (x2), make(x3), brought, found, held, let, saw
Which verb is the odd one out?
fall, let, grow, know
Correct: let
Let is from the verb group, where it doesn't change, where as the other verbs does and in past participle ends with -n or -en.
Bend the irregular verbs correctly in this sentence:
"The legendary treasure chest was ___ (to fight)over by the students and ___ (to sink) deep into the ocean during the battle. ____ (to swing) on ropes across the burning deck, the young pirates ___ (to drive) their ship through the storm. They ___ (to see) the lost gold in the clear water and ____ (to draw) a map to mark its location."
"The legendary treasure chest was fought over by the students and sunk deep into the ocean during the battle. Swinging on ropes across the burning deck, the young pirates drove their ship through the storm. They saw the lost gold in the clear water and drew a map to mark its location."
Why is this sentence incorrect?
"Notwithstanding the key witness having swam across the channel to evade detection, the prosecutor mistakenly pleaded that the newly forsook testimony remained admissible under federal precedent."
Correct: having swum / pled or pleaded [note below] / forsaken
A twist on plead/pleaded
In the casual American usage this is accepted, but when working within the more academic field where there's official reports, the most correct is pled.
Did you say pleaded was correct? You get 250 points
Translate this:
"Skønt den sjældne falk var fløjet tværs over bugten før daggry, søgte ornitologerne læ i skjulet og tegnede detaljerede skitser af dens redeplads."
Correct:
"Although the rare falcon had flown across the bay before dawn, the ornithologists sought shelter in the blind and drew detailed sketches of its nesting site."
Fidn the irregulars! You an extra point for knowing how many times each irregular word is used.
"As It Was" by Harry Styles:
Holdin' me back
Gravity's holdin' me back
I want you to hold out the palm of your hand
Why don't we leave it at that?
Nothin' to say
When everything gets in the way
Seems you cannot be replaced
And I'm the one who will stay, oh-oh-oh
In this world, it's just us
You know it's not the same as it was
In this world, it's just us
You know it's not the same as it was
As it was, as it was
You know it's not the same
Correct: holdin' x3, leave, say, gets, be, know x4
Which verb is the odd one out?
lend, grind, build, send
The other verbs have that in common, that they have their -d in infinitive to a -t endning in simple and past participle.