Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Five, Lesson Two: Irregular Verbs


  1. clamp
  2. damp
  3. stamp
  4. tramp
  5. hamper
  6. weather
  7. clouds
  8. storm
  9. hurricane
  10. tornado
  1. humidity
  2. intense
  3. pressure
  4. colonize
  5. expedition
  6. territory
  7. expand
  8. settle
  9. mission
  10. explorers
Irregular Verbs

Most verbs follow predictable patterns when it comes to the changing of tense:


	walk				climb
	walks				climbs
	walked				climbed
	walking				climbing

	drop				watch
	drops				watches
	dropped				watched
	dropping			watching

	carry				hike
	carries				hikes
	carried				hiked
	carrying			hiking

Some verbs don't follow these patterns. Here are some exceptions (the exceptions are shown with an asterisk):

	run				catch
	runs				catches
	*ran				*caught 
	running				catching

	sweep				go
	sweeps				goes
	*swept				*went
	sweeping			going

As you can see, irregular verbs are mostly irregular only in their past tense.


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