Regular verbs always follow the same pattern.

They look the same in the past and

are easy to form. Usually all you have to do is add the letters -ed at the end of
the word!

Here are some examples:

I work, I worked, I had worked.

Irregular verbs, though, don’t follow that pattern. You can recognize them because
they look so different in the past tense.

Some examples:

I write, I wrote, I had written.

He builds, he built, he had built.

An English verb is irregular when it doesn’t end in -ed in the simple past tense
and past participle form. Not sure what those are? Here’s a simple way of looking
at it:

The simple past tense describes any action that takes place before right now.
Regular verb: I worked for 40 hours last week.
Irregular verb: I spoke to my best friend yesterday.

The past participle is used in other English tenses that have an auxiliary (or
“helping”) verb. For example, the past perfect tense uses the auxiliary verb “have”
+ the past participle of your main verb to describe an action that happened and
ended in the past.
Regular verb: I had worked for the company for only 6 months when I decided
to leave.
Irregular verb: I had spoken at over 50 schools by the time I turned 30.