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Hello my dear students, with this video we are going to distinguish between regular and

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irregular verbs to form the past simple tense in English.

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First of all I want to look at the following examples.

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Susan played basketball with her friends yesterday.

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I went to Ireland last summer.

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The verb in the first sentence is played and it is regular.

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The verb in the second sentence is went and it is irregular.

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Now let's concentrate on the regular verbs.

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Look at the following verbs.

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Listened, helped, watched, returned, played, visited, looked and worked.

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As you can see, all these verbs have added the suffix ed at the end to form the past

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simple tense.

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Next we are going to practice a little bit.

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Can you transform these regular verbs?

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Answer, ask, remember, cook, transform, climb, finish, scream and talk.

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Now it's your turn to use the verbs in sentences.

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Use three of these verbs and write three sentences in the past simple form in your

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notebook.

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Ready?

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But careful, not all regular verbs add the suffix ed.

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There are some rules when adding the suffix that imply some spelling changes.

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Let's look at them one by one.

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Verbs ending in e only add d, for example arrive, arrived.

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Verbs ending in consonant plus y change the y for an i and add ed, for example study,

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studied.

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Monosyllable verbs ending in the pattern consonant-vowel-consonant double the last consonant and add ed,

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for instance chat, chatted.

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And finally the verb travel doubles the last consonant in British English but not in American

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English.

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OK, now it is the turn of irregular verbs.

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Please, can you look at these verbs again?

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Ate, drank, built, went, wrote, lost, had, begun.

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Do they have anything in common?

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The answer is no.

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You must learn them by heart from the irregular verb list that you have.

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But I'm sure that you are familiar with some of them, don't you?

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OK, I'm aware that learning irregular verbs is one of the most hated aspects when studying

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English, so here you are some useful groupings to learn irregular verbs more easily.

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The first group changes the final d for a t, as in build, built.

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Others add t, as in dream, dreamt.

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The next group changes the end for u, blow, blew.

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Next group changes the vowel i for a, as in sing, sung.

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The next group changes the vowel to o, like write, wrote.

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Or others change to ot, bring, brought.

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Between verbs are those verbs that remain the same, as it is the case of cost, cost,

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and mixed verbs have no regular pattern.

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This is the case of be, was, were, or have, had.

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I hope this video has helped you to learn and understand better how to distinguish between

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regular and irregular verbs.

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And remember, learning can be fun!

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Bye for now!