English verbs

English irregular verbs practice

Irregular English verbs are short, common and easy to mix up. Practice base form, past simple and past participle together so forms like go, went, gone become automatic.

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English irregular verbs to learn first

These verbs are the backbone of everyday English and exam writing. Open each verb page for more forms and practice prompts.

beam/is/are, was/were, been havehave, had, had dodo, did, done gogo, went, gone seesee, saw, seen taketake, took, taken makemake, made, made getget, got, gotten/got comecome, came, come writewrite, wrote, written

Practice by three-part patterns

The fastest way to reduce mistakes is to practice each verb as a three-part pattern: base, past, participle.

Same past and participle: have, had, had; make, made, made.
Vowel change: sing, sang, sung; begin, began, begun.
Completely irregular: go, went, gone; be, was/were, been.