Top 10 Regular Verbs in English
10 Most Popular Regular Verbs
The top 10 regular verbs in English are:- want, look, use, work, start, try, ask, need, talk, and help.
Table of Contents
- An Overview of Regular Verbs
- The Full Conjugation in All 12 Tenses (Interactive)
- Test Time!
- Learn with Hangman!
An Overview of Regular Verbs
Unlike irregular verbs, regular verbs follow a specific pattern when it comes to forming the past tense and past participle forms.The Full Conjugation in All 12 Tenses (Interactive)
Click on a verb to see how it conjugates in the 12 tenses.All 4 Past Tenses
Person | Simple Past | Past Progressive Tense | Past Perfect Tense | Past Perfect Progressive Tense |
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The simple past tense is for a completed activity that happened in the past.
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The past progressive tense is for an ongoing activity in the past. Often, it is used to set the scene for another action.
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The past perfect tense is for emphasizing that an action was completed before another took place.
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The past perfect progressive tense is for showing that an ongoing action in the past has ended.
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All 4 Present Tenses
Person | Simple Present | Present Progressive Tense | Present Perfect Tense | Present Perfect Progressive Tense |
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The simple present tense is mostly for a fact or a habit.
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The present progressive tense is for an ongoing action in the present.
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The present perfect tense is for an action that began in the past. (Often, the action continues into the present.)
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The present perfect progressive tense is for a continuous activity that began in the past and continues into the present (or finished very recently).
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All 4 Future Tenses
Person | Simple Future | Future Progressive Tense | Future Perfect Tense | Future Perfect Progressive Tense |
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The simple future tense is for an action that will occur in the future.
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The future progressive tense is for an ongoing action that will occur in the future.
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The future perfect tense is for an action that will have been completed at some point in the future.
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The future perfect progressive tense is for an ongoing action that will be completed at some specified time in the future.
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Learn with Hangman!
Hangman is a classic word game. In this version, the hidden word is a regular verb (not necessarily form this list). Choose your first letter to start.- Guess the hidden verb by choosing one letter at a time.
- If you guess a letter in the hidden verb, then all is good.
- If you guess a letter that is not in the hidden verb, then the hangman starts to build the gallows.
- If the gallows are completed, you lose.
- Good luck!
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