The 50 Most Common Irregular Verbs in English English Grammar Lesson

Today you're going to learn the 50 most common irregular verbs in English. Now, an irregular verb is verb that doesn't use "ed" in the past or the participle form. And there are over 200 irregular verbs in English. But don't worry, many of those aren't commonly used. But the 50 that you're going to learn in this lesson are used every single day in everyday speech. So you need to learn them. And make sure you watch right until the end because I'm going to share PDF that summarizes all 50 irregular verbs with example sentences. And you can download and save this PDF right onto your computer. Of course, I'm Jennifer, welcome back to JForrestEnglish.com, your place to become fluent, confident English speaker. Now let's get started with this lesson. Now as we're going through these irregular verbs, want you to stop when you get to verb that is new to you. And want you to leave an example sentence in the comments so you get some practice with this new irregular verb and you'll remember it lot better. The first verb is the most common verb in English. The verb to be. To be, was or were, been. Notice for the past simple we have two choices, was or were. Your choice depends on the subject. he, she, it: was. Yesterday was sick. Yesterday he was sick. Were is for you, we and they. We were sick yesterday. They were sick yesterday. The participle been: haven't been sick in years. Become became become. Yesterday became sick. Have you become sick? Begin, Began, Begun. began the project two weeks ago. Have you begun the project yet? Bring brought brought. She brought chocolates to the party. She had already brought the chocolates by the time came. Buy Bought Bought. She bought new shoes last week. She had bought the shoes before she got the promotion. Choose chose chosen. Notice the pronunciation difference between our base verb choose and the past and the participle chose. Choose chose chosen. She chose me for her team. Who had chosen that book? Come came come. She came home late. Has she come to the party yet? Do did done. did the chores. Have you done the chores? Drink Drank Drunk. She drank the entire bottle. She's drunk two bottles so far. Drive Drove Driven. Who drove you here? was driven by my friend. Eat Ate Eaten. ate early yesterday. Have you eaten yet? Fall fell fallen. She fell really hard. She had fallen before it rained. Feel felt felt. felt bad. haven't felt fabric like that before. Find found found. found 10 bucks on the street. Have you ever found money before? Fly flew flown. They flew to Paris last week. I've flown five times this year. Forget forgot forgotten. no, forgot to buy milk. Have you ever forgotten someone's birthday? Get Got Got or Gotten. You can use either one in the past participle form, got or gotten. Gotten is more common in American English. Yesterday got speeding ticket. Have you ever gotten speeding ticket? Give gave given. gave her box of chocolates. Have you ever given someone chocolates? Go went gone. Such common verb but hear lot of mistakes with the verb Go. Go went gone. Yesterday we went to the store. They've been gone for 20 minutes. Have had had. She had great time yesterday. We've had great time since we got here. Here heard heard. Yesterday heard the best song. Have you ever heard that song? Keep kept kept. The politician kept his promise. Have you kept your photos from your trip? Know Knew Known. knew she did it. I've known him for 10 years. Leave left left. She left at five o'clock. She had already left by the time came. Lend Lent Lent. lent him some money. Have you ever lent anyone money? Let let let. That one's easy. She let me keep the money. I've let five people into the room so far. Lose, lost, lost. lost their number. Have you ever lost your wallet? Make made made. They made terrible mistake. Have you ever made promise that you didn't keep. Meet met met. We met last week. Have you met Fred yet? Pay Paid Paid. already paid the bill. She had paid the bill by the time got back from the bathroom. Put put put. that one's easy. put my new shoes in the closet. Have you put away your groceries yet? Read read read. Notice the spelling is exactly the same but the pronunciation changes. Reed. Red. Red. Yesterday read my book for 20 minutes. Have you read his autobiography yet? Run ran run. He ran marathon last week. We've run three tests so far. Say said said. Who said that? She had said that before our conversation. See saw seen. saw movie last week. Have you seen that movie yet? Sell sold sold. We sold our car. Have you sold your house yet? Send sent sent. We sent package last week. Have you sent the package yet? Sing Sang Sung? She sang in the shower yesterday. Have you ever sung in the shower? Sit Sat Sat. She sat down and broke the chair. Have you ever sat beside someone famous? Sleep slept slept. slept terrible last night. Have you ever slept outside? Speak spoke spoken. Who spoke at the wedding? haven't spoken to her in years. Stand stood stood. He stood me up. Have you ever been stood up? When someone stands you up, it means you made plans with someone, usually romantically like date, but the other person didn't show up. They didn't come to the restaurant at seven o'clock like they said they would. So have you ever been stood up? Or have you ever stood someone up? Hopefully not. Swim, swam swum. swam in the ocean last week. haven't swum in the ocean for five years. Take took taken. She took our photo. Have you taken anyone's photo before? Teach, taught taught. She taught them how to use irregular verbs. Have you ever taught someone how to use irregular verbs? Tell told told. She told me the truth. Have you ever told lie? Think thought thought. thought it was good idea. Have you thought about moving? Understand Understood Understood. understood her explanation. Have you understood all these irregular verbs? Wear wore worn. She wore her green dress to the party. She hasn't worn her blue dress yet. Write wrote written. wrote the answer in my notebook. Have you written the essay yet? Amazing job, you did it! Now you have the 50 most common irregular verbs in English. Make sure you leave some example sentences practicing the irregular verbs that are new to you, the ones you didn't know before, because the more you practice, the easier it will be to use them in your speech. And here's the link where you can download the PDF that summarizes all 50 irregular verbs and the example sentences. You can go to that link and download the PDF right now. And if you found this video helpful, please hit the like button, share it with your friends and of course subscribe. And until next time, Happy Studying!