From the course: Advanced Grammar (2017)
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Irregular verbs
- In grammar, the irregular verbs cause many more use problems than the regular versions. Irregular verbs occasionally refer to as the strong verbs, over 100 of them are verbs that don't follow the usual established rules for verb forms. The most common are usually identified as Be, Do, See say Get Go Know Think Make, Come and Take. And close to three-fourths of the time, 70% the verb we use is an irregular one. So what makes a verb irregular? It doesn't end with a conventional "-ed" ending when referring to the past. Overall the irregular verbs may make no sense because finding a pattern is hard. Okay, so we have ring and rang but not think and thank. Instead, think and thought. And sing, sang but not sling, slang, but sling, slung. Sound confusing? (light giggle) It is. So let's try to make some sense of these pesky irregular verbs that have their own set of rules. As I mentioned in the opening of the course, I am not a believer of memorizing rules. But for irregular verbs, that's…
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