Memorizing Pas and Past Participle forms of irregular verbs (groups 5 to 8)

Category 2: Vowel change, irregular ending, Past form=Past Participle

group 5: vowel change , d or t ending 

creep     crept     crept
feed       fed       fed
feel        felt       felt
keep      kept      kept
kneel     knelt \ kneeled     knelt \ kneeled
meet     met       met
sleep     slept     slept
sweep   swept    swept
weep     wept     wept
leave     left       left

group 6: different pronunciation of the same vowel d or t ending 

deal       dealt                        dealt
dream    dreamed \ dreamt     dreamed \ dreamt
lean       leaned \ leant           leaned \ leant
leap       leapt                        leapt
mean     meant                      meant
read       read (/red/)             read (/red/)
hear       heard                      heard

group 7: ell turns to old

sell    sold    sold
tell    told    told

group 8: vowel change with ought (or *aught) ending d or t ending 

bring     brought         brought
buy       bought          bought
fight      fought           fought
seek      sought          sought
think     thought         thought
catch     caught           caught
teach     taught           taught

Memorizing Past and Past Participle form of irregular verbs (Groups 1 to 4)

Category 1: irregular ending with no vowel change,           Past and Past Participle forms are the same

group 1: d ending changes to t, ent changes to end 

bend     bent     bent
build     built     built
lend      lent     lent
send     sent     sent
spend   spent     spent

group 2: the verbs have and make 

have\has    had       had
make         made     made

group 3: regular (V2, V3) in US English, irregular in UK English 

learn    learned \ learnt     learned \ learnt
burn     burned \ burnt      burned \ burnt
dwell    dwelled \ dwelt     dwelled \ dwelt
smell    smelled \ smelt     smelled \ smelt
spell     spelled \ spelt       spelled \ spelt
spill      spilled \ spilt         spilled \ spilt
spoil     spoiled \ spoilt      spoiled \ spoilt

group 4: ay ending changes to aid

lay     laid      laid (the table, clothes, eggs)

pay    paid     paid 

say    said     said (*said is pronounced /sed/)

Reading Comp exercises

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Writing Practice: simple past and past continuous

Watch this video

and write a story using long and short actions in the past . You can use verbs like:

throw the ball

run

pass

catch

intercept

defend

celebrate

feel sad

shout