some easy tricks to help you remember irregular past participles

Categories: Basic English

 Here are some easy tricks to help you remember irregular past participles (the 3rd form of verbs):

1. Group them by patterns

Many irregular verbs actually follow hidden patterns:

• Same in all three forms → cut – cut – cut, put – put – put
• Same in past + past participle → make – made – made, build – built – built
• -en ending in participle → write – wrote – written, speak – spoke – spoken, break – broke – broken
• Vowel change (i → a → u) → sing – sang – sung, drink – drank – drunk

2. Use mini-stories

Example:

• “He sang a song, then he had sung it many times before.”
• The story connects past tense with past participle. 

3. Rhyming & grouping practice

• begin – began – begun
• swim – swam – swum
• ring – rang – rung
  Practice these in rhyme: “Begin–began–begun, swim–swam–swum, ring–rang–rung!”

4. Flashcards or apps

• Write the base verb on one side, and past + past participle on the other.
• Quick daily practice locks them into memory.

Quick example list (pattern: base – past – past participle):

• go – went – gone
• eat – ate – eaten
• see – saw – seen
• come – came – come
• take – took – taken