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This support has been developed as part of my revisions for exams First Certificate in English.

Common Mistakes

We have already studied irregular verbs in English. There are many errors which are

commonly made while using irregular verbs. In this lesson, we are going to study the most

common errors with these tricky verbs!

When using the verb “to go” in the past simple, many English learners will incorrectly say

they “goed” to a place. This is incorrect. Instead, they should say “went”. It is also important

to remember that the past particle of the verb is “gone”.

The past participle of the verbs is sometimes the same as the past simple form of the verb.

Other times it isn’t. This can make learning the irregular verbs in English really complicated

for English learners. In the following paragraphs, we will give examples of the verbs which

must be taken into account when learning English in order to not get confused and make

mistakes!

Some irregular verbs have the same form for the past simple as for the past participle. They

include:

buy – bought

bring – brought

catch – caught

feel –felt

find – found

have – had

meet – met

leave – left

say – said

think – thought

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While irregular verbs can be very confusing, there are a few irregular verbs which are much

simpler than they seem! For example, the following verbs are some of the most used verbs

that do not change at all in the past simple or past participle forms:

beat, bet, cut, hit, let, put, read, shut

It is quite common for English learners to follow the rules used for regular verbs when using

the aforementioned verbs. However, it is important that you work to memorize the irregular

verbs!

IRREGULAR VERBS

Common Mistakes – Text

Last weekend, I went on a fishing trip with my best friend. Before leaving our home town, we

bought new fishing poles to bring with us. We even brought a boat with us. We felt like we

were ready to catch any sort of fish in the lake.

We set out from our hometown late the night before we were due to arrive at the cabin. It

took us hours to get there, but when we finally found the place we had reserved, we were

thankful. We slept for ten hours! We were rested and ready to go by the time the sun came

up.

My friend caught the first fish of the day. It was an enormous trout! Although we like trout, we

were fishing in a lake that was very well known for its excellent salmon and we cut the trout

off the line and let it go.

We spent another three hours on the lake without catching anything. We were getting really

tired when all of a sudden my friend said he thought he felt something tug on his line!

Excited, he started to reel in the line. Once the fish got closer to the surface, we saw that he

had caught what looked like one of the biggest salmon we had seen in years!

We felt very lucky. It’s not often that you catch a spectacular fish like this! We were very

happy. Although I didn’t catch anything, we went home with a great story to tell our friends

and family.

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