In Grammar By Olga 1414

Once again about how to learn the table of irregular verbs

For the first time the table of irregular verbs students face at the beginning of learning English. Instead of a simple rule — «just add — ed — and get past!» — We have to use a long list, which needs to find the desired word, and always have at hand a dictionary. The question arises: how can memorize all these irregular verbs?

The process of memory depends on the properties of memory that each has its own. A person with good visual memory is sufficient to run through the table or hang on the eyes, flat cards with three forms of the studied words. The advanced mechanical memory will learn verbs, rewriting them from the dictionary in a notebook or doing exercises on the correct form of the verb substitution in the textbook. Very good results bring reading a rhyming verbs in blocks — in this case, connected and visual and auditory memory.

On the Internet you can find poems in which the irregular verbs in English are on the site of Russian words — rhymes and help to learn the meaning of the verse and the translation of the word, and its changes. The following link is a small booklet with such rhyming: ru.calameo.com.

We offer you a table, which gathered more than a hundred irregular verbs in the form of rhymed couplets:

Infinitive	Past simple	Participle II	Translation
get shoot	got shot	got shot	get shoot
bring buy	brought bought	brought bought	bring buy
catch fight	caught fought	caught fought	catch fight
think teach	thought taught	thought taught	think learn
lose cost	lost cost	lost cost	lose, lose cost
sell tell	sold told	sold told	sell tell
fall steal	fell stole	fallen stolen	fall steal
choose freeze	chose froze	chosen frozen	choose freeze
fly blow	flew blew	flown blown	fly blow
grow draw	grew drew	grown drawn	grow draw, pull
know throw	knew threw	known thrown	know throw
mow sew	mowed sewed	mown sewn	mow sew
tear wear	tore wore	torn worn	tear wear
break speak	broke spoke	broken spoken	split speak
shake take	shook took	shaken taken	shake take
sit meet	sat met	sat met	sit meet
read feed	read fed	read fed	read feed
bleed lead	bled led	bled led	bleed lead, lead
flee plead	fled pled	fled pled	elope plead
say have	said had	said had	say have
shed wed	shed wed	shed wed	shed get married, go / marry
make pay	made paid	made paid	do pay
lie slay	lay slew	lain slain	lie kill
be see	was saw	been seen	be see
bid forbid	bade forbade	bidden forbidden	bid ban
ride hide	rode hid	ridden hidden	ride hide
eat beat	ate beat	eaten beaten	there is beat
bite write	bit wrote	bitten written	bite write
give drive	gave drove	given driven	give to drive a car
burn hurt	burnt hurt	burnt hurt	burn to cause a pain
shut cut	shut cut	shut cut	close cut
drink sink	drank sank	drunk sunk	drink sink
run begin	ran began	run begun	flee start
hang sting	hung stung	hung stung	hang sting
sing ring	sang rang	sung rung	sing call
fling cling	flung clung	flung clung	rush cling
swing wring	swung wrung	swung wrung	swing twist, squeeze, squeeze
find grind	found ground	found ground	find grind, grind
bind wind	bound wound	bound wound	associate wind the watch, wound
come swim	came swam	come swum	come swim
go win	went won	gone won	go win
spell smell	spelt smelt	spelt smelt	read letters smell, sniff
set let	set let	set let	install allow
keep sleep	kept slept	kept slept	keep sleep
creep dream	crept dreamt	crept dreamt	creep to dream, to dream
spend bend	spent bent	spent bent	spend, spend bend
weep sweep	wept swept	wept swept	cry, sweat sweep
mean leave	meant left	meant left	mean to leave
feel kneel	felt knelt	felt knelt	feel kneel
lend send	lent sent	lent sent	to lend send
slide light	slid lit	slid lit	slide light, illuminate
rid hit	rid hit	rid hit	get rid bump
wet bet	wet bet	wet bet	watering, moisten the bet