What is a regular verb?
Regular verbs follow specific conjugation rules when forming the simple past tense and the past participle forms.
We use the simple past tense to describe actions and events that were completed in the past (e.g., “I adopted a kitten last year”).
The past participle form of a verb has a few uses. For example, it’s used in perfect verb tenses (e.g., “I have adopted a kitten”), the passive voice (e.g., “the kitten was adopted”), and as an adjective to modify a noun (e.g., “the adopted kitten”).
For most regular verbs, you simply need to add “-ed” to the base verb (or just add “-d” if the verb already ends in “e”) to form both the simple past and past participle forms.
Some regular verbs can change their spelling in other ways, but they still follow predictable patterns.
With regular verbs, we form the simple past and past participle forms by adding “-ed” to the end of the word (or “-d” if the verb already ends in “e”). Regular verbs can sometimes change their spelling in other ways (e.g., “try” becomes “tried”).
Regular verbs examples will clean the kitchen.
I cleaned the kitchen yesterday.
I will cook dinner.
I have cooked dinner every night this week.
- Profesor: Nora Cantos Franco