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  2. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    The English language has many irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use – and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the irregularity concerns the past tense (also called preterite) or the past participle.

  3. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    The preterite and past participle forms of irregular verbs follow certain patterns. These include ending in -t (e.g. build, bend, send), stem changes (whether it is a vowel, such as in sit, win or hold, or a consonant, such as in teach and seek, that changes), or adding the [n] suffix to the past participle form (e.g. drive, show, rise ...

  4. English passive voice - Wikipedia

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    In English, the passive requires the use of the past participle of a verb, generally with an auxiliary verb be. [41] The passive uses an auxiliary be in order to get tense because participles are non finite. The participle verb is also unable to assign Case.

  5. Passive voice - Wikipedia

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    English, like some other languages, uses a periphrastic passive. Rather than conjugating directly for voice, English uses the past participle form of the verb plus an auxiliary verb, either be or get (called linking verbs in traditional grammar), to indicate passive voice. The money was donated to the school. The vase got broken during the fight.

  6. English verbs - Wikipedia

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    The past participle of regular verbs is identical to the preterite (past tense) form, described in the previous section. For irregular verbs, see English irregular verbs. Some of these have different past tense and past participle forms (like sing–sang–sung); others have the same form for both (like make–made–made).

  7. Regular and irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    To some extent it may be a matter of convention or subjective preference to state whether a verb is regular or irregular. In English, for example, if a verb is allowed to have three principal parts specified (the bare infinitive, past tense and past participle), then the number of irregular verbs will be drastically reduced (this is not the ...

  8. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    English past participles have both active and passive uses. In a passive use, an object or preposition complement becomes zero, the gap being understood to be filled by the noun phrase the participle modifies (compare similar uses of the to-infinitive above). Uses of past participles and participial phrases introduced by them are as follows:

  9. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The verb be has the largest number of irregular forms (am, is, are in the present tense, was, were in the past tense, been for the past participle). Most of what are often referred to as verb tenses (or sometimes aspects ) in English are formed using auxiliary verbs .