Name: TEST YOUR ENGLISH! Irregular Past Participles
Uploaded: 2018-03-02T17:47:18.000Z
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Hello. I'm Gill at www.engvid.com, and today's
lesson is on irregular past tenses. Okay?

The imperative

And in particular: "Irregular Past Participles"-okay?-of
irregular verbs. So, let me just show you

The comparative

some examples to make it
clearer what I mean. Okay.

So what we're doing, we're looking at three
different tenses to show how the verb changes,

so the present simple of the verb, then the
past simple, and then when we use the present

perfect that's when you have to use the past
participle. And what happens is sometimes

it's the same for both the past simple and
the present perfect, but with other verbs

it's different. So I just have two examples
here to show you, one verb where it's the

same and one verb where it's different just
to illustrate. And then in the second part

of the lesson we will have a list of two separate
sets of verbs, and I will test you on your

knowledge of the past participles of those and
they're listed under "same" and "different"

just to clarify which ones stay the same,
which ones are different. Okay. So let's have

a look at some examples, and then
it should all become clearer.

So, first of all, this is the present simple:
"I catch a cold every winter." Every winter,

achoo, I'm sneezing. Oh, terrible, every winter
I catch a cold. So for something that happens

regularly, that is one way that we use the
present simple when something happens regularly.

Every, every winter I catch a cold, so the
verb is "to catch", okay? So then if we put

it into the past tense, the past simple and
we say: "Last month... I caught a cold last

month." Okay? So: "caught" is the irregular
past simple form of the verb "to catch". "I

caught a cold last month." I caught a cold
last month, but I'm much better now. That

sort of idea. Okay. So then the third example
here is using the present perfect which involves

using this word: "have" as an auxiliary, as
an extra verb. So: "I have caught another

cold!" Oh dear, I only had a cold... I caught a
cold last month, and now I have caught another

cold. That's one cold after another. So this is
in the more recent past, the present perfect

using "have": "I have caught another cold."
Meaning just recently. So you can see here

that "caught" stays the same, it's the same.
So it's an example where the past simple and

the present perfect stay the same, but let's
have a look now at an example where there's

a change and where
they're different. Okay?

So, back to the present simple again and the
verb is "to write", which is an irregular

verb, so: "I write to my cousin once a year."
I have a cousin who is not on email, and it

makes it rather inconvenient to keep in touch
with her, so writing letters and putting them

in the post I find a terrible job these days.
I'm so used to using email for everybody,

but I have a cousin who's not on email and
she will not have a computer. So I have to

write a letter to her. "I write to my cousin
once a year." Okay? So, again, that's using

the present simple for a regular action. Once
a year is the regular action, I write. Okay,

so then if we move to the past simple: "Last
week... I wrote to my cousin last week." So

that's the past simple. So, the form there
for the past simple is "wrote", from "write"

to "wrote", but then if we use the present
perfect using the auxiliary "have": "Today...

I have written to my cousin today." So recent
past, it's a completed action. "I have written".

Thank goodness I've got that letter written
and posted, and it's gone now, so that's a

job done for the year. So: "I have written",
so you can see there that this form is not

the same. They're the same here: "I caught",
"I have caught", but with "write": "I wrote",

"I have written to my cousin today." So you
can see how past simple and present perfect

with different verbs, sometimes they stay the
same, other times they're different. Okay.

So let's move on to the second part of the
lesson, and we'll have a look at two lists

of verbs, and I will test you on your
knowledge of the past participles.

Okay, so let's have a look at these which are
the verbs which stay the same in the past

simple and the present perfect, and I will
just write that form in, but just to give

you an opportunity first to think what it
is. So: "to send", I send in the present.

sent", did you get that one? Okay,
so: "Yesterday I sent", it's always

useful to think of some words like: "Yesterday"
or "Last week I" to help you to form the simple

Right, so "make", the verb "to make".
"Yesterday I

so they're not going to be with "ed" on the
end, they're going to be different. Sometimes

it means that the consonant changes, like from
"make", "k" to "d", "d" to "t", sometimes

a vowel will change from one
vowel letter to another.

So, let's carry on: "I pay.
I pay. Yesterday I

paid." So that changes from an "a" to
an "i" and then with a "d" added. Okay?

Next one: "to say".
"Today I say, yesterday I

"sayd". This is pronounced: "payd", but that's
not pronounced "sayd". "Paid", "said", so

there's a different pronunciation there.
Okay, good.

Next one: "to think".
"Today I think, yesterday

I..."That's a funny one, isn't it?
"o-u-g-h-t"

often appears in English words: "I thought",
"I thought", "I think, I thought". And, of

course, with the present perfect you would
say: "I have sent, I have made, I have paid,

I have said, I have thought", so it stays
the same in the present perfect. Okay?

Let's carry on. "I stand". Today I stand
here in front of a camera. "Yesterday I

stood". Did you get that one? So, from "a" to
double "o", and we lose the "n". "Stand", "stood",

"Buy". "Today I buy some
oranges, yesterday I

bought", so it's a bit like "thought".
"Thought",

Next one: "tell". "I tell... I tell my
friends something today. Yesterday I

"e" changes to "o", two l's change to one
"l", and we add a "d". "Tell", "told", and

also: "I have told". Just the same.
Okay?

Another one of those. "Brought".
We have: "thought",

Right, next column: "lose". "I lose... I
lose my keys all the time. Yesterday I

then: "I have lost. I have lost my keys again".
"I lost", "I have lost", stays the same. Okay.

"To have". "Today I have something. I
have a bottle of water. Yesterday I

with the present perfect: "I have had", "have
had", so the verb "to have" appears twice

like that. "I have", "I
had", "I have had". Okay.

"To sell". "Today I sell my car.
Yesterday I...

say to a friend: "I have
sold my car." Okay?

met". So, one "e" rather than two.
"Yesterday I met

somebody famous", and then I can say: "I have
met that famous person. I have met", okay?

sat". So from "i" to "a": "I sat".
And also: "I have

"Find". "Today I find my keys. I lost
them, now I find them. Yesterday I