Irregular Verbs Irregular verbs are verbs that do not follow the normal rule of adding -ed to make the past tense and past participle. Examples (Base – Past – Past Participle) • Go – Went – Gone • Eat – Ate – Eaten • Write – Wrote – Written • See – Saw – Seen • Come – Came – Come • Take – Took – Taken • Give – Gave – Given • Drink – Drank – Drunk • Speak – Spoke – Spoken • Do – Did – Done Why they are important • Used very often in daily English • Necessary for all tenses, especially perfect ten