Irregular verbs · Grade 6
In Grade 6 you learn: the past participle after have.
Regular verbs make their past with -ed: play → played. Irregular verbs don't: go → went, see → saw. Every verb has three forms: the base form, the past simple and the past participle (used after have and has). For irregular verbs you learn the three forms together.
Key facts
- The three forms: base, past simple, past participle: go → went → gone, see → saw → seen, eat → ate → eaten.
- Use the past participle after have or has: She has written a letter.
- Some verbs have the same past simple and participle: buy → bought → bought, think → thought → thought, make → made → made.
- Some never change: put → put → put, cut → cut → cut. Some follow a pattern: sing → sang → sung, drink → drank → drunk, swim → swam → swum.
Worked examples
Example 1
Complete: She has ___ (eat) her lunch.
Answer: eaten
Example 2
Give the three forms of see and write.
Answer: see, saw, seen; write, wrote, written
Example 3
Correct the verbs: I have went home and I seen my friend.
Answer: I have gone home and I saw my friend.
Example 4
Complete the pattern: sing, sang, sung; ring, ___, ___; drink, ___, ___
Answer: ring, rang, rung; drink, drank, drunk
Example 5
Choose the right form: The bell had (rang / rung) before we (began / begun).
Answer: rung, began