Chapter TwentySix Regular and Irregular Verbs College Writing
Chapter Twenty-Six Regular and Irregular Verbs College Writing Skills with Readings
Chapter 26 Verbs Adjectives
Chapter 26 Participles: Verbal Adjectives Present participles describe what a thing does. Past participles describe what was done to a thing.
Chapter 26 Past participles describe what was done to a thing. Past participle subject Dried meat is a staple of my diet. verb
Chapter 26 Present participles describe what a thing does. Present participle subject The dripping faucet kept me awake verb
Chapter 26 Regular Verbs • Present • Past Participle • Present Participle
Chapter 26 Regular Verbs • Present • Past Participle • Present Participle These parts are used to build verb
Chapter 26 Regular Verbs. . . and
Chapter 26 Most verbs. . . in English are regular. Let’s take a look at the verb
Chapter 26 “Shout” is in the present tense. • The past tense of a regular verb is formed by adding -d or -ed to the present. • So, the past tense of “shout” is. . .
Chapter 26 The past participle. . . is also formed by adding -d or ed to the present. So, the past participle of “shout” is also. . .
Chapter 26 The past participle. . . is the form of the Example: verb often used with helping verbs: • have • has • had or • some forms of be. “Enough! You have shouted at me for two days already!”
Chapter 26 The present participle. . . is formed by adding -ing to the present. So, the present participle of “shout” is. . .
Chapter 26 Let’s review! Present Past Shouted Past Present Participle Shouted Shouting
Chapter 26 Irregular Verbs. . . throw these rules out the window. Except, thank goodness, for the present participle, which can still be formed by adding -ing to the base form of the verb.
Chapter 26 Irregular verbs. . . can otherwise be tricky. For example, take the verb “bite. ” That’s the present tense.
Chapter 26 Irregular Verbs • The past tense of “bite” is “bit, ” and the past participle is “bitten. ” “Bited” just won’t do. • Remember, the present participle is still “biting. ”
Chapter 26 Let’s review again! Present Past Bite Bit Past Present Participle Bitten Biting
Chapter 26 Irregular Verbs. . . give just about everyone trouble from time to time. When in doubt, consult the list in your text (p 476 -478) or your dictionary.
Chapter 26 Activities • Activities 1 (p 475), 2 (p 475 -476), 3 (p 479), & 4 (p 481) College Writing Skills / CWS with Readings, 7 E © 2008 The Mc. Graw-Hill Companies, Inc
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