Regular Verbs

Regular Verbs
English regular verbs change their form very little (unlike irregular verbs).
The past tense and past participle of regular verbs end in -ed, for example:

work, worked, worked

But you should note the following points:

1. Some verbs can be both regular and irregular, for example:

learn, learned, learned

learn, learnt, learnt

2. A few verbs have one meaning when regular and a different meaning
when irregular, for example the verb to lie:

base past past meaning example

participle

regular lie lied lied to say Why do you lie about

untrue everything? You liedto me
things yesterday. And you have
just lied to me again.

irregular lie lay lain to be down Normally I lie on the floor for
flat my back exercises. But yesterday
I lay on the bed. I have
never lainon the sofa.

3. The present tense of some regular verbs is the same as the past tense of
some irregular verbs, for example the verbs to found and to find:
 present past past meaning example
participle

regular found founded founded to start or Did Steve

establish an Jobs foundApple?
organization
such as a school Reed's School
or business was founded by
Andrew Reed.

irregular find found found to discover Where did

something you findyour keys? /
I foundthem in the
car.