Very useful table for some highly irregular verbs (present tense, past tense and past participle). I recommend checking out the “Language Log” blog as well.
I’ve written a couple of posts about tricky irregular verbs such as lead and lie/lay. Today I ran across a recent post about irregular verbs at the Language Log blog that lists some of the more confusing verbs and their proper forms alongside verbs with similar present-tense forms whose past tense forms are created differently. I pulled this table straight out of the post.
PLAIN PRES | PRETERITE | PAST PART. | ||
hit | hit | hit | hit | |
sit | sit | sat | sat | |
right | right | righted | righted | |
light | light | lit | lit | |
fight | fight | fought | fought | |
lie | lie | lay | lain | |
lay | lay | laid | laid | |
get | get | got | gotten | (got in British English) |
let | let | let | let | |
make | make | made | made | |
take | take | took | taken | |
bring | bring | brought | brought | (brung in some non-standard dialects) |
ping | ping | pinged | pinged | |
sing | sing | sang | sung |
The “plain pres” column lists the present tense, the “preterite” lists basically the simple…
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