Regular and Irregular Verbs (Lesson 2)

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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.