Purpose

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to correctly use ten of the most common irregular past tense verbs, which do not follow the -ed pattern.

Lesson Explanation

Many extremely common English verbs are genuinely irregular in the simple past — they do not add -ed at all, and must be memorized individually:

go → went have → had eat → ate see → saw do → did make → made take → took come → came say → said get → got

Like regular past tense verbs, these irregular forms stay the same for every pronoun: I went, she went, they went — no special form for he/she/it.

This matters because these ten verbs are among the most frequently used in everyday English, meaning they will appear constantly — memorizing them directly, rather than trying to apply the regular -ed pattern, is essential.

Practice Questions