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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.englishforums.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>ESL General English Grammar Questions</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htm</link><description>Ask your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3598.39794)</generator><item><title>Re: Irregular  verb</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#837339</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:14:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:837339</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#837339</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-837339.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>i would like to have irregular verbs of all three forms are the same. 
 eg. hit  hit  hit.</description></item><item><title>Re: Irregular  verb</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#527540</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:14:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:527540</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#527540</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-527540.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>can you give more words of irregular like rise rose risen</description></item><item><title>Re: Irregular  verb</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#395115</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:14:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:395115</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#395115</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-395115.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>I need 50 word of "hit -&amp;gt; hit, hit" having this form.That is all 3 forms should be same.</description></item><item><title>Re: Irregular  verb</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#10322</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:14:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:10322</guid><dc:creator>Pemmican</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#10322</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-10322.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Also because of what Raúl just said, that students have to learn also the strong verbs by heart, they are usually said to be irregular verbs as well.</description></item><item><title>Re: Irregular  verb</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#10320</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:14:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:10320</guid><dc:creator>Pemmican</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#10320</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-10320.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>In fact, there are 3 categories of verbs: 1) Weak Verbs 2) Strong Verbs 3) Irregular Verbs     1) An English weak verb forms its past tense and past participle forms simply by adding the suffix "-(e)d" to the stem:  examples: to live - pt: lived - pp: lived to wish - pt: wished - pp: wished    2) Strong verbs in comparison change their stem vowel in the past tense and have either no added suffix, or take the old -en ending in the past participle:  examples: to sing - pt: sang - pp: sung to write - pt: wrote - pp: written to take - pt: took - pp: taken  --&gt; It is said very often, that strong verbs are irregular verbs, but that's not true. Strong verbs form their forms in a different way than weak verbs, but this...</description></item><item><title>Re: Irregular  verb</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#10319</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:14:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:10319</guid><dc:creator>Raul</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm#10319</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-10319.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>An "irregular verb" is that which does not follow the "-(e)d rule" for past formation.  Regular verbs forms (simple and participle) their past like this:  want -&gt; wanted, wanted watch -&gt; watched, watched plan -&gt; planned, planned blame -&gt; blamed, blamed  If any past form does not follow this rule, the verb is considered irregular.  show -&gt; showed, shown go -&gt; went, gone hit -&gt; hit, hit  These verbs are used exactly as regular ones. Unfortunately, students have to learn them by heart. But fortunately, they are not so many.  By the way, some verbs accept both forms:  learn -&gt; learnt, learnt learn -&gt; learned, learned (As far as I know, there's no difference in meaning.)  hang -&gt; hung, hung (common verb) hang -&gt;...</description></item><item><title>Irregular  verb</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:14:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:10288</guid><dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator><slash:comments>6</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IrregularVerb/cbkd/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-10288.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>What is an irregular verb? and how is it used ?</description></item></channel></rss>