Forms of Verbs (Unit Four)

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'Be' Verbs (Lesson 1)

A. Look at the underlined words and guess what these are.

My name is Nazia Rahman. I am a student of a famous school. My two brothers are also students of the same school.
Deena was a student of this school too. But her two sisters were not students of this school. They studied in another school.
The bus is very late. Passengers are being impatient.
Tahmid has got a lot of toys on his birthday. He is getting restless with them.
Samrin is ill. She has been absent from the school for a few days. Her parents have been very worried about her medical treatment.

Note: The underlined words are called 'be verbs'. These have various forms. Look at the table:

Base form	Be
present forms	am, is, are,
past forms	was, were
perfect form	have/has/had + been

B. Write the correct forms of be verbs in the gaps of the following sentences:

My teachers ________ all very qualified and trained. I do not know who he ________ .
Once his father _________ an ordinary farmer.
_________ your mother a housewife?
You are asking the same questions repeatedly. You _______ silly.
You work in a bank. How long _______ here?

C. Write sentences with each category of 'be verbs' and share with your partner:

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Regular and Irregular Verbs (Lesson 2)

A. Look at the underlined verbs and guess if these are regular or irregular :

During the final exam I worked until late night.
Many students attended their class late because of transport strike.
Our school's annual cultural program went very well.
A computer operator solved the problem at last.
Who typed the whole document?
They have all sung the national anthem in the assembly session.
During hartal days our classes were not held.
My father cooked all meals when he had lived overseas.
It was decided that teachers would come to school this Friday for make up classes.
Nobody knew how he made it possible.

Note: Most underlined verbs are in 'ed' forms; these are called regular verbs and the rest which do not take 'ed' are called irregular verbs.

The past tense form and the past participle form of regular verbs end in-ed.
But irregular verbs make their past simple and past participle forms in an irregular way. For example:

work, worked, worked (regular)
go, went, gone (irregular)
But you should note the following points:

Some verbs can be both regular and irregular. For example:
learn, learned, learned
learn, learnt, learnt
Some verbs change their meaning depending on whether they are regular or irregular; for example "to hang":

regular	hang, hanged, hanged	to kill someone by dropping them with a rope around the neck
irregular	hang, hung, hung	to fix something (for example, a picture) at the top so that the lower part is free

Below is a list of regular verbs which you should learn carefully.