NICE TIPS TO MEMORIZE IRREGULAR VERBS



First the good news - all new verbs in English are regular.

• I photocopied the report.
• She faxed it to me.
• They emailed everybody about it.

However, that doesn't help you to learn the approximately 180 irregular verbs which do exist. Luckily some of these are extremely rare but many others are very useful and you need to know them. 



So how do you learn them? Some teachers think you should learn a list of them 'by heart'. Other teachers think you should not learn them at all – you will just gradually acquire them over time.

One useful method is to note down new irregular verbs as you meet them. But how should you note them?

It is useful to put these verbs (or any vocabulary you want to learn) into sentences and learn those rather than the individual word.

Which do you think is easier to learn?
stick stuck stuck
I stuck the photo into my album.

Another good technique is to classify the irregular verbs into 4 categories.

1. All forms the same

cost cost cost
set set set

2. Similar sound groups

beat - beat - beaten
eat - ate - eaten
blow - blew - blown
throw - threw - thrown
drink - drank - drunk
sing - sang - sung
speak - spoke - spoken
wake - woke - woken

3. The second and third forms are the same.

bend - bent - bent
sleep - slept - slept
spend - spent - spent
bring - brought - brought
buy - bought - bought
teach - taught - taught
have - had - had
pay - paid - paid
say - said - said

4. The "unclassifiables"

come - came - come
do - did - done
go - went - gone
show - showed - shown

As you meet new irregular verbs, try to decide in which category they fall.




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