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  • Hi. My name's Ronnie.

  • I'm going to try and help you do something fantastic

  • for your English grammar, speaking, and general well being.

  • This is a very, very time-consuming and difficult task

  • that you will have to do when you are learning English.

  • They're verbs.

  • We have many verbs in English.

  • We have what are called regular verbs.

  • A regular verb will end in "ed".

  • For example: "use", "used".

  • So, regular verb. We like to call them "ed" verbs just to be fancy.

  • So, regular verbs are easy because they all both end in "ed"

  • if you have different forms.

  • Now, what I'm going to go over today

  • is the difference in forms between simple past and the past participle.

  • So, we have the simple present tense, which is something like:

  • "I eat pizza."

  • When we use simple present, it's something we do every day.

  • Then we have what's called the simple past,

  • or you can say past simple.

  • It doesn't matter; it's the same.

  • So, we have the present tense, we have the past, and we have what's called the past participle.

  • Have you heard of this before?

  • The past participle, it's so difficult for me to say,

  • so I'm going to call it p.p. from now on.

  • So, the past participle,

  • you're going to have to use if you learn present perfect.

  • Now, if you don't know what these are yet, that's okay.

  • If you've heard of these before and you know what they are, that's fantastic.

  • Past perfect and all the forms of passive voice that we have in English.

  • If these are new kind of ideas to you, please don't worry, but it's not past, present "prefect"

  • it's present perfect.

  • We must be perfect. If these are new things for you...

  • I'll get this spelling right, I promise.

  • There we go, present perfect.

  • If these are new concepts to you, don't worry about it. Okay?

  • Just focus on learning these groups,

  • and we have a very, very beautiful list of verbs

  • to help you in the resources section on www.engvid.com.

  • Go there now. You can put it... It's in PDF file, so you can print it out

  • and you can have the list in front of you to memorize, to remember, to help you.

  • What I want to do is I want to introduce you to-doo, doo, doo, doo-group one and two

  • of irregular verbs.

  • Once you do this, there's also a video on group number three,

  • which is the most difficult. So we're starting with the easiest ones, yay. And again, this is

  • groups one and two. You can find them, a list of these on the resources section.

  • So, past participle, I will now call p.p.

  • Yay. We have the present tense, simple past or past, and then the past participle.

  • The first group is the most delicious. It's the best because we don't have to change anything.

  • Woo-hoo. So, if in the present tense the verb

  • is "cut", the past tense is "cut", and so is the past participle or the p.p.

  • So, we have: "cut", "cut", "cut".

  • For example, if we use present tense: "I cut the pizza."

  • If we use past tense, I can say: "Yesterday, I cut the grass."

  • And if I wanted to use the past participle, let's say I want to use present perfect,

  • I can say: "The grass has been cut."

  • So, we don't need to change the verb.

  • These are some examples of verbs that we don't have to change.

  • So, these are the easiest, and probably your favourite.

  • We have: "cost", "hit", "hurt",

  • ow. So if you... Something hits you, you are hurt.

  • "Let", "put", "quit".

  • If the simple past is "shut", what do you think the past participle would be?

  • It's the same, so this would also be "shut".

  • So, I could say: "I shut the door.",

  • "The door was shut.", or:

  • "The door has been shut."

  • And in the last one we have the word "bet".

  • Again, we don't have to change it, so it's: "bet", "bet", "bet".

  • I bet you like this lesson. Yeah? Okay?

  • So these ones are the easiest and the most fun because they don't have to change. Whew.

  • We're going to go into group two.

  • Group two is okay, because we only have to change one time now.

  • So, if we have the present tense, section A, all we're doing to make it past

  • or use the past participle, is we're changing it,

  • and all of these ones are going to have a "d" ending.

  • So, present tense we have "sell", "sold", and "sold".

  • I hear a lot of people doing this: "Sell, sold, sold",

  • so they're saying: "sell", "sold", "sold".

  • If you repeat it in your head, it will help you remember it.

  • We have "tell", "told", "told"; "feed"...

  • Do you know what "feed" means?

  • "feed" means you give food to someone, like a dog or a baby, mostly those guys.

  • So the past simple is "fed" and the past participle is also "fed".

  • We have "pay", you got to give me money, we have the past: "paid".

  • What do you think the past participle is?

  • You guessed it, it is, again: "paid", because these don't change.

  • And the last one we have "find", it's going to change to "found", "found", good, guys, good.

  • So, all of these ones here, when we change them, it's going to end in a "d".

  • On to part B. These next group of verbs, they're going to end in a "t".

  • So we have: "deal", "dealt", "dealt".

  • A deal, if you play cards, you can deal the cards, or you can say the cards were dealt.

  • This means something was given out to each person.

  • We have: "feel", "felt", "felt", has to do with your feelings.

  • "I feel happy.", "I felt sad yesterday."

  • "keep", "kept", "kept".

  • So, "keep" is something that you cherish.

  • For example: "I keep all of my cards." or: "I kept everything you gave me.",

  • "I have kept the receipt."

  • We have: "leave",

  • hmm. This is "left". What do you think the past participle is?

  • Doesn't change. It's "left".

  • Yay. And then we have "meet", "met", and again "met".

  • So, all of these ones, all we're doing is we're changing from the present to the past and the p.p

  • These two are going to be the same.

  • These ones end in "t". We've got one more. You okay?

  • The last one, we're going to change the vowel in the middle to a "u".

  • So we have: "dig", "dug", and "dug". "Dig" means you get a shovel...

  • I can draw a shovel. I can't draw a shovel.

  • "Dig" means you make a hole. So I'm going to try to draw a shovel again. There we go.

  • If you're digging a hole, the past tense is "dug", and again, the past participle is "dug".

  • We have "hang", "hung", and "hung".

  • You guys might have heard this a lot, for example,

  • maybe your friend says: "Hey, do you want to hang out?" Or they say:

  • "What did you do yesterday?" "Oh, I hung out with Bob."

  • Okay. So, we use this one a lot nowadays.

  • We also have: "stick", "stuck", this one doesn't change.

  • So what do you think this is? If this is "stick",

  • these two are the same, we're going to say: "stick", "stuck", "stuck".

  • Are you stuck in traffic? This means you can't go, you can't drive your car anywhere.

  • And the last one, this might happen to you if a wasp comes-"zzz"-and stings you,

  • we have: "sting", "stung", do you know the past participle?

  • It's the same. It's going to be "stung".

  • "sting", "stung", "stung"

  • If it helps you to make little songs or little rhymes, little things that help you remember these verbs,

  • that'll be really, really good for you. Unfortunately, I'm not really a musician.

  • I'd like to write a song about it, but you can do that. Write a song about this,

  • send it on the comments. It'd be great. Look in the resources section. There's lists of these verbs

  • to help you out so you can form your song. Group two, we have to change only one time.

  • It changes the present to the past, but the past and the past participle are the same;

  • three different groups. And my favourite, group number one, we don't have to change the verbs.

  • Check out group number three, the most difficult one. Once you get that,

  • it'll be so much better for you.

  • I hope you have fun, I hope you have learned regular "ed" verb,

  • and I hope that I have taught you about the past participle and simple past.

  • Making life easier for you, one step at a time.

  • I'm Ronnie. Good bye.

Hi. My name's Ronnie.

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