ASIGNATURA: Ingls

AO/GRADO: 4to Ao SECCIN: A, B y C

OBJECTIVE 2.

REGULAR VERBS
Regular verbs are the ones that follow a pattern when theyre changed to a different person
or tense. They have up to 4 different forms: root, third-person singular present (which is
usually the same as the root but with the -s added at the end), present participle, and past
and past participle (which are the same).
Need needs needing needed needed

Notice how the past and past participle are the same form.
Talk talks talking talked talked
Call calls calling called called
Add adds adding added added
Work works working worked worked

If the base of the verb ends in:-e only add -d (raid - raided)
a consonant plus -y the y is turned into -ied (study - studied / try - tried)
-c add -ked (panic - panicked)
a single vowel plus a consonant and is stressed on its final syllable the consonant is usually
doubled and -ed added (plan - planned)
-p, g or -m the consonant is usually doubled and -ed added (ram - rammed / tap - tapped /
gag - gagged)
-l the consonant is usually doubled (travel - travelled)

Present tense regular verbs dont have -s (or -es) added to the end of the root word for
anything except the third-person singular.
My cat does whatever he wants, not what I want him to do.
They shop at the big market, but he shops at the little one.

Regular verbs also have -ed (or -d if the verb already ends in -e) added to them to change
them into past tense.
Laugh laughed
Push pushed
Rest rested

PHRASAL VERBS

Some verbs are two part verbs (see Clauses, Sentences and Phrases). They consist of
a verb and a particle:
grow up = The children are growing up.

Often this gives the verb a new meaning:

take after She takes after her mother
= She looks like her mother, or She behaves like her mother.
count on I know I can count on you
= I know I can trust you, or I know I can believe you.

Some transitive two part verbs (see Clauses, Sentences and Phrases) have only one pattern:
She takes after her mother
I can count on you
My father comes from Madrid

Some transitive two part verbs (see Clauses, Sentences and Phrases) are phrasal verbs.
Phrasal verbs have two different patterns:
She gave the money back
He knocked the glass over
We will be leaving our friends and neighbours behind

But sometimes these verbs have the pattern:

She gave back the money
He knocked over the glass
We will be leaving behind our friends and neighbours

When the object is a personal pronoun, these verbs always have the pattern:
She gave it back
knocked it over
We will be leaving them behind

Phrasal verbs are nearly always made up of a transitive verb and a particle. Common
verbs with their most frequent particles are:
bring:
buy:
call:
carry:
cut:
give:
hand:
knock:
leave:
let:
pass:
point:
push:
put:
read:
set:

about, along, back, forward, in, off, out, round, up

out, up
off, up
off, out
back, down, off, out, up
away, back, off
back, down, in, on out, over, round
down, out, over
behind, out
down, in, off, out
down, over, round
out
about, around, over
across, away, down, forward, off, on, out, through,
together, up
out
apart, aside, back, down

shut:
take:
think:

away, in, off, out

apart, away, back, down, in, on, up, over
over, through, up