Regular and Irregular Verbs ...

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Regular and Irregular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122Regular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122Irregular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Problem Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128The Twelve verb Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Simple Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Per fect Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Progressive Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Per fect Progressive Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Subject- verb Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Consistency in Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Active and Passive Voice.

For he, she, and it, irregular verbs in the present tense add an -s or an -es to the base word. The following chart shows the present tense of the base word break, which is an irregular verb. Singular Plural First Person: I break we break Second Person: you break you break Third Person: he, she, it breaks they break

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