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irregular verb

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irregular verb

Verb that does not form each different tense in the ‘regular’ way, for example the verb to be (am, was, were, have been).

Some irregular verbs are strong verbs with special vowel changes across tenses, as in swim, swam, swum, and ride, rode, ridden.



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