VERBS – 3 Weak and strong Verbs (Regular and irregular verbs)

 

VERBS  – 3         Weak and strong Verbs (Regular and irregular verbs) 

          There are three main tenses concerning verbs, from which, all other tenses are formed.

 

Present	Past	Past Participle
Help Feel Write Sit	Helped Felt Wrote Sat	Helped Felt Written  Sat

      

Those verbs that add ‘–ed’, ‘-d’, or ‘t’ with or without having a change in the present tense, to form the past and past participle are called weak verbs or regular verbs.

The verbs that have a change in the main vowel to form the past tenses and past participles and sometimes add ‘-n’, ‘-en’, or ‘-ne’ in past participles are called strong verbs or irregular verbs.

       The weak or regular verbs are divided into six groups.

1.  The verbs that add ‘-d’, ‘-t’, ‘-ed’ (dental sounds) to form past and past participles without having any change in the vowel.

Present	Past	Past participle
Hate Legalize Talk	Hated Legalized Talked	Hated Legalized Talked

 2.              The verbs that add ‘-d’, ‘-t’ with a change in the vowel.

Creep Deal Tell Say

Crept Dealt Told Said

Crept Dealt Told  Said

 3.    The verbs that add ‘-d’ or ‘-t’ and only shorten their vowel sounds.

Bleed Breed Feed Meet

Bled Bred Fed Met

Bled Bred Fed Met

4. The verbs that change the final ‘-d’, into ‘-t’

Bend Lend Send  Spend

Bent Lent Sent Spent

Bent Lent Sent spent

 

5.  The verbs that have a change in the vowel and also omitting the final consonants before adding ‘-d’ or ‘-t’

Bring Catch Teach Think

Brought Caught Taught Thought

Brought Caught Taught Thought

 

6. The verbs that have no change in past and past participle.

 

Bring Catch Teach Think

Brought Caught Taught Thought

Brought Caught Taught Thought

The strong or irregular verbs are also divided into two groups.

1.              The strong verbs that form past participles by adding ‘-n’, ‘-en’, or ‘-re’

Arise Bite Break Drive  Forget Forbid Grow Steal Take Wear *Bear (a child) Bear (a burden) *Bid Bid

Arose Bit Broke Drove Forgot  Forbad Grew Stole Took Wore Bore Bore Bade Bid

Arisen Bitten Broken Driven Forgotten Forbidden Grown Stolen Taken Worn Born Borne Bidden Bid

*A child was born to Mary.

The arches have borne the weight quite    satisfactorily.

*He had bid Rs. 50,000 for the painting, but couldn’t get it

       *After I had bidden him farewell, I hurried away. 

2. The strong verbs that form past participles without any addition (-n, -en and –ne) 

Awake Begin Come Find Sing Stick Swim Wind *Drink Shrink Sink Strike

Awoke Began Came Found Sang Stuck Swam Wound Drank Shrank Sank Struck

Awoken Begun Come Found Sung Stuck Swum Wound Drunk, Drunken (adj) Shrunk, shrunken (adj) Sunk, Sunken (adj) Struck, Strucken (adj)

 

      A drunken driver was arrested by the police.

 

The ten year old boy rescued from bore-well after ten hours had shrunken cheek and sunken eyes.

 

The old lady fell down like a stricken deer.

A few verbs have both weak forms and strong froms with different meaning.

Hang   Lie   Lay

Hanged (weak) Hung (strong) Lied (weak) Lay (strong) Laid

Hanged (weak) Hung (strong) Lied (weak) Lain (strong) laid

• The criminals will be hanged tomorrow.

 

• They hung the led-lights everywhere.

 

• The thief had lied, hoping to escape punishment.

 

• The old may lay on the bed and rest for a while.

 

Lay means to ‘place or put down’.

 

He laid his books on the table.

 

The Minister laid the foundation stone for the bridge. 

 

PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE (MALAYALAM) PART – 15 - VERBS - 3

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ப்ரொஃபிசி'யன்ஸி இன் இங்கிலிஷ் லாங்குவேஜ் - தமிழில் விளக்கம் - பகுதி - 15 - VERBS - 3 

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---Thulasidharan V