As a strategy to learn the past and past participle forms of irregular verbs, we suggest that you
fill in the charts below reorganizing the verbs we have included on pages 52, 53 in our
handout. “Regroup” them following a similar “pattern” as stated in each case.
b)* there are many irregular verbs that follow this last pattern. For example, STRIKE-STRUCK-
STRUCK or WRING-WRUNG-WRUNG. Try and find more examples of this pattern.
GROUP ONE
a) BEGIN BEGAN BEGUN
b)*HANG HUNG HUNG
GROUP TWO
BET BET BET
New verb: SHED-SHED-SHED
After you have finished, try and add a new example of an irregular verb that follows the same
pattern but which has not been included in our handout.
