What Are The Regular And Irregular Verbs - List of Examples

What Are the Regular And Irregular Verbs: In English Language, there are two types of verbs based on how they change their form in Past tense and Past Participle. They are 

1] Regular Verbs

2] Irregular Verbs

Now let us have a close look at both of them.

                                         What Are The Regular And Irregular Verbs

1] Regular Verbs

The verbs which form their past forms by adding just '-ed' at the end are called regular verbs.

See the list of examples of Regular Verbs:

Sr No.	Base Verb	Past Tense	Past Participle
1	walk	walked	walked
2	purchase	purchased	purchased
3	play	played	played
4	listen	listened	listened
5	jump	jumped	jumped
6	dance	danced	danced
7	work	worked	worked
8	paint	painted	painted
9	dress	dressed	dressed
10	borrow	borrowed	borrowed
11	haunt	haunted	haunted
12	surprise	surprised	surprised
13	examine	examined	examined
14	answer	answered	answered
15	accept	accepted	accepted
16	appear	appeared	appeared
17	arrange	arranged	arranged
18	bounce	bounced	bounced
19	call	called	called
20	confuse	confused	confused
21	decorated	decorated	decorated
22	exist	existed	existed
23	force	forced	forced
24	guess	guessed	guessed
25	help	helped	helped
26	happen	happened	happened
27	invite	invited	invited
28	join	joined	joined
29	kill	killed	killed

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2] Irregular Verbs

Verbs whose form totally gets change in past tense and in Past Participle are called irregular verbs.

Here is the list:

Sr. No	Base Form	Past Form	Past Participle
1	go	went	gone
2	come	came	come
3	know	knew	known
4	begin	began	begun
5	write	wrote	written
6	bring	brought	brought
7	buy	bought	bought
8	run	ran	run
9	win	won	won
10	think	thought	thought
11	fly	flew	flown
12	throw	threw	thrown
13	show	showed	shown
14	become	became	become
15	teach	taught	taught
16	send	sent	sent
17	lose	lost	lost
18	say	said	said
19	make	made	made
20	leave	left	left
21	get	got	got
22	find	found	found
23	feel	felt	felt
24	drive	drove	driven
25	drink	drank	drunk
26	choose	chose	chosen
27	give	gave	given
28	begin	began	begun
29	eat	ate	eaten

Some irregular verbs do not change their form at all like:

Sr. No.	Base Form	Past Tense	Past Participle
1	cut	cut	cut
2	put	put	put
3	shut	shut	shut
4	let	let	let
5	hurt	hurt	hurt
6	cost	cost	cost

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Final Words on What Are The Regular and Irregular Verbs

Verbs who get added by '-ed' in their past tense and past participle forms are called regular verbs while those whose form totally gets change or donot change at all are referred as irregular verbs.