Unit 8: A murder story List of Irregular verbs

Most verbs have past tense and past participle in –ed ( worked, played, listened). But many of the most frequent verbs are irregular:

Base form	Past tense	Past participle
be begin break bring buy build choose come cost cut do draw drive eat feel find get give go have hear hold keep know leave lead let lie lose make mean meet pay put run say see sell send set sit speak spend stand take teach tell think understand wear win write	was/were began broke brought bought built chose came cost cut did drew drove ate felt found got gave went had heard held kept knew left led let lay lost made meant met paid put ran said saw sold sent set sat spoke spent stood took taught told thought understood wore won wrote	been begun broken brought bought built chosen come cost cut done drawn driven eaten felt found got given gone had heard held kept known left led let lain lost made meant met paid put run said seen sold sent set sat spoken spent stood taken taught told thought understood worn won written

Exercises

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/irregular_verbs/forms.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/irregular_verbs/forms2.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/irregular_verbs/forms3.htm

B. There ir + there are + plural nouns

Using There’s with Plural Nouns

One native-speaker error stood out for me, perhaps because even highly educated speakers made the mistake: using there’s with plural nouns, as inThere’s a few slices of pizza in the fridge or There’s two hundred tickets left.

Using here’s or there’s with plural nouns is exceedingly common, especially in spoken English. Listen carefully as you talk to friends, family, and coworkers. You will likely hear one of them (or yourself) use there’s with plural nouns.

Is There’s Always There Is?

The short answer is no. Sure, there’s is the contraction for the impersonal construction there is. There is is for singular subjects; there are is for plural subjects. (Consider There is a patient in the waiting room and There are several patients in the waiting room).

That’s the theory. But in practice, this distinction often gets lost. So people readily say things like There’s three ducks on the pond or write Agronomy experts say there’s several reasons why the knee-high benchmark is outdated.(Yes, even journalists use there’s with plural nouns.)

This speech trend is even making its way into scripted advertisements. In the “Two Reasons” ad for the Hyundai Veloster, actor Jeff Bridges says, “There’s lots of reasons to love Veloster’s voice text messaging. Here’s two.” Two instances of there’s/here’s with plural nouns in a 16-second spot!

Exercises

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/elementary/grammar/grammar_03_012e?cc=global&selLanguage=en

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-plural.php

C.

Exercises

http://www.my-english.edu.pl/index.php?id=66

http://www.ihbristol.com/free-english-exercises/test/esol-smc-there-is-there-are