The irregular verb gets taken for a ride | Grammar | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hello grammarians broadly we're talking
about irregular verbs but more
specifically today we're going to talk
about the en ending which is why I'm
calling this lecture taken for a ride
because this little en thing so we've
spoken previously about verbs that show
their past tense or their past perfect
or past participle forms by changing
their vowel sound like the verb to sing
right
present tense sing past tense sang past
perfect aspect had sung so some of the
words we're going to be talking about
today also have that vowel change but
what's different about them is that for
the past perfect or past participle form
instead of edie it's en let me explain
the verb to tear right and its present
tense it's tear I tear this piece of
paper past tense I tore this piece of
paper and in the past perfect its I had
torn I probably shouldn't have done that
I had notes on that paper some verbs
that fall into the category of the en
past perfect have regular seeming past
tenses so for example the word show I
show him the book she showed me the book
we had shown them the book so we're
still getting this mmm sound same thing
goes with proof present tense prove past
tense
proved past perfect proven same deal for
the verb to bite I bite it bit I was
bitten or it had bitten
the present tense of to ride is ride the
past is rode and the past perfect or
past participle is had written or was
written as in the horse was ridden all
around the countryside the verb to eat
works this way present tense
eat past tense ate past participle or
past perfect was had eaten or was eaten
so I had eaten earlier or the cookie was
eaten by stew the verb speak undergoes
at vowel shift so it goes speak in the
present tense spoke in the past tense
and past participle or past perfect is
spoken even really weird words like to
be and to go obey this rule the en rule
it just doesn't necessarily look like it
so to be the past of that is either was
or were but the past perfect form of
that is bin which is just be with an in
ending on it right go is the same way so
even though go has a really weird past
form I go she went the past perfect or
past participle form is gone
and sure the letters aren't in the right
order but the sound is there gone
irregular verbs are weird there's no
denying it but we can break them down
and they can be understood and you can
learn anything Dave it out