Gramer girl here, I'm Minyon Fogarty and you can think of me as your friendly guide to

the English language, writing, history, rules, and cool stuff.

Today, I have a meeting middle about irregular verbs and another segment about the difference

between math and maths and being in the hospital and in the hospital.

Let's get started with the regular verbs.

Why do we say we saw a movie instead of we cede a movie?

And did you know that the past tense of the verb help used to be hope instead of helped?

Most of the time you add ed to a verb to put it in the past tense.

Slurp becomes slurped, scarf becomes scarfed and cook becomes cooked, for example.

When you make a verb past tense by tacking on an ed, you're dealing with a regular verb.

It's the regular way we make things past tense.

English also has verbs that don't follow this pattern.

Verbs such as M, which becomes was tell, which becomes told, and sing, which becomes

saying.

They're called irregular verbs because they don't follow the regular pattern.

People who grew up speaking English just know they're irregular verbs, but children

and people who are learning English as adults struggle with them.

As toddlers are learning the language they often say things such as he break to my doll

instead of he broke my doll.

And daddy go to the store instead of daddy went to the store.

And adults who are learning English are faced with memorizing a long list of irregular

verbs.

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