Regular Verbs

Regular verbs show actions like work, play, and clean. They follow simple patterns in the present simple and the past simple. You use them to talk about daily actions and finished actions in basic English sentences.

The base form is the main form of the verb. You use the base form with I, you, we, and they in the present simple. You also see the base form in dictionaries.

In the present simple, regular verbs stay in the base form with I, you, we, and they. With he, she, and it, you usually add -s. This form talks about habits, routines, and usual actions.

To form the regular past simple, you usually add -ed to the base form. The past simple shows a finished action in the past. The form is the same for all subjects.

Some regular verbs change spelling before you add -ed. Verbs that end in -e add only -d. Verbs that end in a consonant and y change y to i before -ed.

These spelling patterns make the past simple form correct. You learn them as part of regular past simple verbs. They help you write common regular verbs in the right way.

You can now identify the base form of a regular verb. You can use regular verbs in the present simple and add -s with he, she, and it. You can also form the regular past simple with -ed and use common spelling changes correctly.