Past tense of Regular and Irregular       Verb

Define  verb.

Identify the past tense of regular and irregular verb

Understand the rules in forming irregular form of verb.

Verb  is a part of speech that shows an action .

Regular verbs are action word that do not change in their spelling. It usually ends with d or ed.

dance        danced 

fix                fixed

help            helped

Irregular verb form their past tense by changing the spelling

write   wrote

understand understood

drive                              drove

When do we double the consonant?

We double the consonant when the verb ends in consonant + vowel + consonant. This is always true when the verb is one syllable.

• stop ⇒ stopped, 

• plan ⇒ planned,

•  shop ⇒ shopped, rob ⇒ robbed.

When the verb is two syllables, we only double the consonant when the STRESS is in the last syllable.

• reFER ⇒ referred,

•  preFER ⇒ preferred, reGRET ⇒ regretted

But we do NOT double the consonant when the STRESS is NOT in the last syllable.

• VIsit ⇒ visited, ANswer ⇒ answered.