Let's learn about Regular and Irregular Verbs

The spellings of English verbs don't follow any fixed pattern when their forms change.

Even then there are verbs that can be made 'past' (simple) and 'past participle' by simply adding 'd' or 'ed' to the base form. You need not learn by heart their forms.

E.g. Suggest (root form / base form/ Present form), suggested (Simple Past) suggested (Past Participle)

The above type of verbs is known as Regular Verb.

But the verbs that do not follow the above rule are known as Irregular Verbs.
They are so irregular that you always run the risk of misspelling them unless you learn them by heart:

E.g. Go, Went, Gone
Put, Put, Put
Write, Wrote, Written

I will post more examples later.

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How to make a question?

Dear friend, we can ask two types of questions in English:

1. Yes / No Questions

E.g. Are you ready?

The expected answer will be either 'Yes' or 'No'.

2. Specific Questions

E.g. When can we start our journey?

This sort of questions require us to use question words such as 'When', 'What', 'Where' etc. In reply we expect specific information. In case of the above sentence, we expect to know the time.

Most importantly the following structure is followed while making a question:

(Question Word) Helping Verb + Subject + Main Verb + other words followed by a question mark.

In Yes / No Questions we don't use any question words.

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Learn how to make a sentence negative

It is very easy to make a sentence negative. Just read the following and learn 3 simple formulas. Here we go...

If your sentence has a 'be' verb form, say 'am', 'are', 'is', 'was' or 'were' (There are eight forms of 'BE': be, am, are, is, was, were, been and being), then you need to add only a 'not' to make the sentence negative.

e.g. Positive Sentence: He is a football player. 
Make it negative as 'He is not a football player.' Or, 'He isn't a football player.'  

We make negative sentences by adding not to Auxiliary Verbs also. 

e.g. Positive Sentence: He can play the guitar. 
Make it negative as 'He cannot play the guitar.' Or, 'He can't play the guitar.'  

But in case of other verbs we can't add 'not' directly with the verb to make it negative. 


e.g. Positive Sentence: I play the guitar. 
I can't make it negative by adding not after the verb 'play'. I can't write 'I play not the guitar.' (Wrong)
Make it negative as 'I do not play the guitar.' Or, 'I don't play the guitar.'

Most of the verbs have 5 forms.

Take the verb 'Do'. It has five forms.

Do-V1               Did-V2            Done-V3              Doing-V4             Does-V5

Two more verbs:

Go-V1               Went-V2         Gone-V3              Going-V4             Goes-V5
Write-V1          Wrote-V2        Written-V3          Writing-V4           Writes-V5 

To make a sentence negative we mostly need 'do', 'did' and 'does' to help us.

 Learn the following 3 formulas to make your sentence negative:

V1-don't V1 (or, do not V1)

V2-didn't V1 (or, did not V1)

V5-doesn't V1 (or, does not V1)

e.g. We write. (V1) ------------------------- We don't write. (don't V1)
You wrote. (V2)------------------------------You didn't write. (didn't V1)
He writes. (V5)------------------------------He doesn't write. (doesn't V1)



In case of Helping or Auxiliary Verbs, just add 'not' to the verb as I have shown you in the first few examples.

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