The Present Perfect Tense - Experiences
Irregular Verbs
Some verbs are irregular. We do not add ed. They have different verb forms:
| Infinitive | Past Participle (V3) |
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| become | become |
| begin | began |
| bet | bet |
| blow | blown |
| break | broken |
| bring | brought |
| build | built |
| buy | bought |
| catch | caught |
| choose | chosen |
| come | come |
| cost | cost |
| cut | cut |
| do | done |
| draw | drawn |
| drink | drunk |
| drive | driven |
| eat | eaten |
| fall | fallen |
| feed | fed |
| feel | felt |
| find | found |
| fly | flown |
| forget | forgotten |
| get | got |
| give | given |
| go | gone |
| grow | grown |
| have | had |
| hear | heard |
| hide | hidden |
| hit | hit |
| hold | held |
| keep | kept |
| know | known |
| learn | learned/learnt (AmE/BrE) |
| leave | left |
| lend | lent |
| let | let |
| lose | lost |
| make | made |
| meet | met |
| pay | paid |
| put | put |
| read | read |
| ride | ridden |
| ring | rung |
| run | run |
| say | said |
| see | seen |
| sell | sold |
| send | sent |
| shake | shaken |
| shoot | shot |
| show | shown |
| sing | sung |
| sit | sat |
| sleep | slept |
| speak | spoken |
| spell | spelled/spelt (AmE/BrE) |
| spend | spent |
| stand | stood |
| steal | stolen |
| swim | swum |
| take | taken |
| teach | taught |
| tell | told |
| think | thought |
| throw | thrown |
| understand | understood |
| wake | woken |
| wear | worn |
| win | won |
| write | written |
| Tip! |
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| * learned and spelled are American English (AmE). |
| * learnt and spelt are British English (BrE). |
| Tip! |
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| * We use been and not gone to talk about a trip or journey that has finished: |
| I have gone to the Pyramids before. ✘ |
| I have been to the Pyramids before. ✔ |
| * We use gone to talk about a trip or journey that has not finished: |
| She has gone to the bank. She'll be back later. ✔ |
| * We can use gone to talk about a mode of transport: |
| I have gone to London by car before. ✔ |
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