Primer solemne = 20%

Segundo solemne = 30%

Tercero solemne =40 %
Parciales= 10%
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Regular and irregular verbs

Verb forms: past tense and past participle

All verbs in the english language ( except for to be), have five forms: base from ( infinitive) , past tense,part participle,
present participle, and trird-person singular ( or- s form)

Base form: (to) talk.

Past tense: talked
Past participle: talked
Present participle: talking
Third-person singular: talks

Verb forms: past tense and past participle

When figuring out if a verd is regular or irregular, the forms you have to consider are past tense and past participle

Past tense refers to something that happened in the past. For example, the past tense of jump is jumped

The kids jumped in the bounce house

Verb forms: past tense and past participle

When figuiring out if a Verb is regular or irregular , the forms you have to consider are past tense and past participle

Past participle refers to an action that was started and completed in the past. Auxiliary verbs ( e.g., to have) precede past participles

The kids have jumped in the bounce house

 What are regular verbs? When the past tense and past participle of a
verb is formed by adding “ -ed “ or “-d”, it’s a
regular Verb

We honor our ancestars

(Base)

We honored our ancestars

(Simple past)

We had honored our ancestors every year for the

past 20 years

Past perfect with past participle included

What are irregular verbs ? When a verb’s past tense or past participle from doesn’t
follow the “-ed” or “-d” pattern, then it’s an irregular verb

We will Fly from New York to San Francisco

Base

We flew from New York to San Francisco

(Simple past)

We had flown from New York to San Francisco.

Past perfect with past participle included

Let’s start Checking the básic verb forms we’ll find in the list. Let’s take the verb do as an example

Do- the first Word is the infinitive or the bare from of the verb.
Did- the second Word is the past form of the verb
Done- the third is the past participle of the verb (for perfect tenses
and the passive).
One change: past form and past participle are the same A-B-B

Feel Felt Felt

Get Got Got

Hear Heard Heard

Keep Kept Kept

Leave Left Left

Lose Lost Lost

Meet Met Met

Send Sent Sent

Sit Sat Sat

Sleep Slept Slept

Think Thought Thought

Understand Understood Understood

One change: A-B-A

Become Became Become

Come. Came. Come

 All different: A-B-C

Be Was/were Been

Do Did Done

Drink Drank Drunk

Eat Ate Eaten

Give Gave Given

Go Went Gone

Know Knew Known

See Saw Seen

Swim Swam Swum

Take Took Taken

Wear Wore Worn

No change

Cost. Cost. Cost

Cut. Cut. Cut

Put. Put. Put

Read. Read. Read

Exercise

1- She cooked (cook) dinner when the phone rang

2- They played (play) football every saturday aftermoon

3- last week, we visited ( visit) the museum downtown

4- he goes (go) to the gym three times a week

5- She wrote (write) a letter to her friends yesterday

6- They had (Have) a great time at the party last night

7- the cat caught ( catch) a mouse in the garden yesterday

8- we studied (study) for the exam all week

9- he baught (buy) a New car last month

10- the children built (build) a sandcastle on the beach yesterday