Grammar Level 3- Lesson Twenty Eight
In this grammar lesson, you learn about Irregular Verb Tense in English and how to use it in your English conversation and writing. Just follow examples and write them down a few times to learn them very well. After finishing this lesson, you should work on its quiz.
Grammar Recap
In our previous lesson, we covered the Verb Tenses If you just landed on this page, we suggest that you complete our previous lesson including its quizzes before continuing on this lesson.
Requirement Lessons
There is no required lessons for working and learning this lesson.
English Tenses for Irregular Verbs
In this lesson you learned how a regular verb changes from one tense to another in English. Irregular verbs are more difficult. These types of verbs are hard to use because of the way they change when they are conjugated. In some cases, they don’t change at all. The verbs “be,” “do,” and “have,” in particular, can be very difficult.
This lesson is in four parts. This first part shows how an irregular verb such as “go” changes from one verb tense to another.
The verb “go” is a very popular irregular verb:
Irregular Verb Tenses
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| I go | We go |
| You go | You go |
| He goes | |
| She goes | They go |
| It goes | |
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I went
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We went
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You went
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You went
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He went
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She went
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They went
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It went
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I will go
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We will go
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You will go
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You will go
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He will go
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She will go
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They will go
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It will go
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I am going
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We are going
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You are going
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You are going
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He is going
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She is going
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They are going
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It is going
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I was going
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We were going
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You were going
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You were going
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He was going
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She was going
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They were going
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It was going
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I will be going
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We will be going
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You will be going
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You will be going
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He will be going
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She will be going
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They will be going
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It will be going
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I have gone
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We have gone
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You have gone
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You have gone
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He has gone
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She has gone
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They have gone
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It has gone
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I had gone
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We had gone
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You had gone
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You had gone
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He had gone
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She had gone
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They had gone
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it had gone
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I will have gone
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We will have gone
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You will have gone
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You will have gone
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He will have gone
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She will have gone
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They will have gone
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It will have gone
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I have been going
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We have been going
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You have been going
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You have been going
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He has been going
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She has been going
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They have been going
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It has been going
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I had been going
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We had been going
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You had been going
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You had been going
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He had been going
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She had been going
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They had been going
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It had been going
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future perfect continuous tense (Don’t worry too much about learning this tense. Few people use it.)
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I will have been going
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We will have been going
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You will have been going
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You will have been going
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He will have been going
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She will have been going
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They will have been going
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It will have been going
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modal verbs: ______ go
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past tense modal: ______ have gone
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infinitive: to go
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gerund: going
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Practice 
Directions: Write the main verb using the correct tense.
1. I _________ to the store almost every day. (present)
2. She _______ _________ to Las Vegas many times. (present perfect tense)
3. They ________ ________ to their friend’s house later. (future)
4. Bill ________ _________ to several schools before he found one he really liked. (past perfect)
5. The truck ________ ________ over the speed limit when it was stopped by a police officer. (past continuous tense)
Quiz for Irregular Verb Tenses
Now that you learned your new lesson, it is time to go to the Irregular Verb Tense page and finish your quiz. While working on your quiz, you can always go back to its lesson to refresh your memory.
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