ENGLISH VERBS

AND THEIR FORMS

ENGLISH VERBS

Have a limited number of forms:

infinitive

play

-s form
(-es
form)
plays

move

moves

-ing form -ed form

(-d form)
playing

played

moving

moved

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These forms are used in the following

cases:
Infinitive form as an infinitive,
imperative, or as the Present Simple:
They made me PLAY their game.
Go out and PLAY something else!
They often PLAY in my garden.

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-s form (or -es form) is used as the

3rd person singular of the Present
Simple Tense (affirmative form)
Every morning Jack GETS up at seven,
MAKES breakfast and GOES to work. He
never COMES back home before five or
six in the evening.

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-ing form is used to make the

Present Participle, which is used to
make Continuous tenses
Jane was reading while her children
were playing in the garden.
I am trying really hard to understand
what you are talking about.

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-ed form (or -d form) is used to

make the affirmative form of the Past
Simple tense, or the past participle
(as a part of Perfect tenses or the
Passive):
He played in the match last week.
He has just played a good match.
During the tournament, several matches
will be played in this court.

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Irregular verbs do not have ed form, but

different forms for the Past Simple and the
Past Participle

infinitive

-s form
(-es
form)

-ing
form

Past
Simple

Past
Participle

grow

grows

growing

grew

grown

go

goes

going

went

gone

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Irregular verbs are usually printed in

three-column lists:
infinitive

Past simple

Past participle

Go

Went

Gone

Come

Came

Come

Bring

Brought

Brought

Put

Put

Put

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The exception to the rule is the verb

BE, which has:
three forms for Present Simple
Tense
am, is, are

and two forms for Past Simple Tense

Was, were

Forms of to BE

Infinitive be
-ing form being
Present Simple am, is, are
Past Simple was, were
Past participle been