What are Irregular Verbs?

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The verbs that do not follow a specific pattern of forming the past tense and past participle by simply adding the suffixes '-d' and '-ed' to the base verbs are known as irregular verbs. Instead, these verbs either change entirely, stay the same in V2 & V3, or follow some other unique transformation

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Below are some of the most commonly used irregular verbs:

Base Form	Simple Past	Past Participle
Go	Went	Gone
Do	Did	Done
Have	Had	Had
Get	Got	Gotten
Make	Made	Made
See	Saw	Seen
Come	Came	Come
Take	Took	Taken
Say	Said	Said

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There are around 200 commonly used irregular verbs in English. However, this number may vary depending on the classification. Some of the examples of frequently used irregular verbs in everyday conversation are: Go, Do, Have, Get, Make, See, Come, Take, etc.

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