A handy list of links to resources for teaching verbs Stage 2: Saying what you do. Grammar Tip: 1st and 2nd person endings of regular verbs. Common irregular verbs: être, aller, faire, avoir ...

Irregular verbs don’t follow the usual pattern in the preterite tense. Some verbs in the preterite tense have irregular spellings when using the third person singular or plural forms.

For the rest, verbs are either regular and formed in the past tense and past participle with an ‘-ed’ ending, or they are irregular, like ‘build’ in your example, Carmen, which becomes ...

Today, less than 3% of verbs are irregular but they wield a disproportionate power. The ten most commonly used English verbs – be, have, do, go say, can, will, see, take and get – are all ...