Sunday 23 March 2014

Irregular verbs in English


arise(s)arosearisen

awake(s)awoke or awakedawaked or awoken

am, is, arewas, werebeen

bear(s)boreborne or born

beat(s)beatbeaten

become(s)becamebecome

begin(s)beganbegun

bend(s)bentbent

bet(s)betbet

bid(s)bidbid

bid(s)badebidden

bind(s)boundbound

bite(s)bitbitten or bit

blow(s)blewblown

break(s)brokebroken

bring(s)broughtbrought

build(s)builtbuilt

burst(s)burstburst

buy(s)boughtbought

cast(s)castcast

catch(es)caughtcaught

choose(s)chosechosen

cling(s)clungclung

come(s)camecome

cost(s)costcost

creep(s)creptcrept

cut(s)cutcut

deal(s)dealtdealt

dig(s)dugdug

dive(s)dived or dovedived

do(es)diddone

draw(s)drewdrawn

dream(s)dreamed or dreamtdreamed or dreamt

drink(s)drankdrunk

drive(s)drovedriven

eat(s)ateeaten

fall(s)fellfallen

feed(s)fedfed

feel(s)feltfelt

fight(s)foughtfought

find(s)foundfound

flee(s)fledfled

fling(s)flungflung

flies, flyflewflown

forbid(s)forbade or forbadforbidden

forget(s)forgotforgotten or forgot

forgive(s)forgaveforgiven

forsake(s)forsookforsaken

freeze(s)frozefrozen

get(s)gotgot or gotten

give(s)gavegiven

go(es)wentgone

grow(s)grewgrown

hang(s)hunghung

has, havehadhad

hear(s)heardheard

hide(s)hidhidden

hit(s)hithit

hurt(s)hurthurt

keep(s)keptkept

know(s)knewknown

lay(s)laidlaid

lead(s)ledled

leap(s)leaped or leaptleaped or leapt

leave(s)leftleft

lend(s)lentlent

let(s)letlet

lie(s)laylain

light(s)lighted or litlighted or lit

lose(s)lostlost

make(s)mademade

mean(s)meantmeant

pay(s)paidpaid

prove(s)provedproved or proven

quit(s)quitquit

read(s)readread

rid(s)ridrid

ride(s)roderidden

ring(s)rangrung

rise(s)roserisen

run(s)ranrun

say(s)saidsaid

see(s)sawseen

seek(s)soughtsought

send(s)sentsent

set(s)setset

shake(s)shookshaken

shine(s)shoneshone

shoot(s)shotshot

show(s)showedshown or showed

shrink(s)shrankshrunk

sing(s)sangsung

sink(s)sank or sunksunk

sit(s)satsat

slay(s)slewslain

sleep(s)sleptslept

sling(s)slungslung

sneak(s)sneaked or snucksneaked or snuck

speak(s)spokespoken

spend(s)spentspent

spin(s)spunspun

spring(s)sprang or sprungsprung

stand(s)stoodstood

steal(s)stolestolen

sting(s)stungstung

stink(s)stank or stunkstunk

stride(s)strodestridden

strike(s)struckstruck

strive(s)strovestriven

swear(s)sworesworn

sweep(s)sweptswept

swim(s)swamswum

swing(s)swungswung

take(s)tooktaken

teach(es)taughttaught

tear(s)toretorn

tell(s)toldtold

think(s)thoughtthought

throw(s)threwthrown

understand(s)understoodunderstood

wake(s)woke or wakedwaked or woken

wear(s)woreworn

weave(s)wove or weavedwoven or wove

weep(s)weptwept

wring(s)wrungwrung

write(s)wrotewritten

Thursday 20 March 2014

Plural forms

Nouns are mainly changed into plural form by taking s at the end. Look at the examples below:

Year                     Years
Gift                      Gifts
Boy                       Boys
School                  Schools
Hour                    Hours
Nouns that end in S, SH, CH, Z and X, need "es" instead of "s" to change into plural. Look at the examples below:

Kiss                     Kisses
Dish                    Dishes
Watch                Watches
Box                     Boxes
Bus                     Buses
When a nouns ends in "y" we have to change y to i and add es to the end of the word to change it to plural. Unless the letter before the y is a vowel(a, e, i, o and u) which in this case y doesn't change and s should be added. Look at the examples below:
Baby          Lady          City
Babies       Ladies       Cities
But...
Boy                Guy               Toy
Boys               Guys              Toys
Some more examples....
Monkey        Donkey          Key
Monkeys       Donkeys         Keys
When a noun ends in f or fe, to change the word to plural, F or fe changes to v and es should be added. Look at the examples below:
Wolf              Wolves
Self                Selves
Shelf              Shelves
Leaf               Leaves
Wife              Wives
Knife            Knives
There are some words in English that do not take s to change into plural form. Below are some examples:
Man                         Men
Woman                    Women
Foot                         Feet
Tooth                       Teeth
Child                       Children
Verb (v.)

Verb is the main part of a sentence. Each sentence contains a verb. You might have a sentence without a subject or object but not without a verb. You can have a full sentence with a verb only. Look at the examples below:


Go.
Listen.
Sit.
Come.
Stop.
Eat.
Run.

Verb contains the time of the sentence:

Went                        Go                         Will go
Past                       Present                      Future 

Verbs can be positive or negative:

Went                        Go                         Will go
Didn't go              Don't go                 Will not go
Past                       Present                      Future 

Verbs can be simple, perfect or progressive:


Go                        Gone                     Going

Simple                  Perfect                 Progressive

For more information visit http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar
Adverb (adv.)

Adverbs are used to describe verbs. They describe how the action takes place in a sentence. In other words adverbs are the answer to the question "how?", which is asked about the verb of that sentence.

Look at the examples below: (Adverbs are in red)

Eat your food nicely.

You guessed the answer perfectly.
After that accident she drives slowly.


It was not a joke. She said that seriously.
As in the examples, adverbs mainly appear at the end of the sentences and are mainly having "ly" at the end. But not any word with "ly" at the end is an adverb neither any adverb ends in "ly". Below are some examples of the adverbs that do not end in "ly": (adverbs are in red)
Neliya runs fast.
You should study hard.
I arrived home late.
They arrived home early.
Your English is good. You speak well.
Adjective (adj.)

Adjectives are words that mainly describe a noun. They talk about the color, size, age, nationality, etc. of nouns and appear before them. Look at the examples below: (words in red are adjectives)

Blue eyes

Nice day

Iranian food

Boring movie

Interesting book

Adjectives also appear after the verb “to be” in a sentence. Look at the examples below: (words in red are adjectives)
 She is tall.                                                                                         
Mahan’s dog is very short.
The building in the town centre is old.
Artin is young.
Adjectives are the same for plural or single nouns. Look at the examples below: (words in red are adjectives)

Blue eye                    Blue eyes
Good day                 Good days
Long leg                    Long legs
Serious boy              Serious boys