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go went gone

drive drove driven

speak spoke spoken
give gave given

Strong and Weak Verbs

 Weak verbs are those that form their past tense by adding -ed/-d/-t at the end.

Examples: play—played, invite—invited, dream—
dreamt REMEMBER
Some verbs remain the same in
 Strong verbs form their past tense by changing all the three forms.

themselves within. Examples: put, cut, hurt, set,
Examples: write—wrote, catch—caught, arise—arose shut, read, hit, cost

B. Write the past and past participle forms of these verbs.

Verbs Speak Take Telecast Cut Choose Reach Hurt

Past

Past

participle

The Present Tense

Let’s discuss the present tense in detail.

The Simple Is used to express universal 1. The earth rotates on its axis.
Present truths, habitual actions, things (Universal truth)
Tense that occur very often and things 2. My mother drinks black coffee in

that continue for a long time. the morning. (Habitual action)

3. Suresh leaves for office very early.
(Action that occurs regularly)

4. Sara studies in this school. (A thing
that continues for a long time.)

The Present Is used to express an action 1. I am listening to the teacher.
Continuous that is going on at the time of 2. She is reading ‘Rip Van Winkle’.
Tense speaking.

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