Apa Bedanya Regular dan Irregular Verb?

Kampung Inggris Bandung E-PLC – Sebelum mengetahui bedanya, kita pahami dahulu bahwa dalam Bahasa Inggris terdapat jenis kata yang di sebut dengan kata kerja, nah kata kerja ini memiliki 5 macam bentuk yaitu bentuk dasarya atau kata dasarnya (base form), simple present/Verb 1, simple past/Verb-2, past participle/Verb-3 dan present participle/Verb-ing.

Reguler verb dan Irregular verb merupakan pengkelompokan kata kerja yang dilihat dari bagaimana perubahan bentuknya dari kata dasar ke verb-1, verb-2, dan verb-3.

Regular Verb

Regular Verb, yang dikenal juga dengan sebutan weak verb, adalah kata kerja yang mayoritas bentuk Verb-2 (past tense) dan Verb-3 (past participle)  didapat dengan menambahkan  -ed atau -d pada kata dasarnya sedangkan dalam V-ing (present participle) didapat dengan menambahkan -ing.

Contoh Regular Verb

Arrive, arrives, arrived

Ask, asks, asked

Admire, admired, admired

Advise, advises, advised

Agree, agrees, agreed

Allow, allows, allowed

Announce, announces, announced

Brake, brakes, braked

Breathe, breathes, breathed

Brush, brushes, brushed

Burn, burns, burned / burnt

Calculate, calculates, calculated

Call, calls, called

Carry, carries, carried

Change, changes, changed

Deliver, delivers, delivered

Develop, develops, developed

Discover, discovers, discovered

Explain, explains, explained

Face, faces, faced

Influence, influences, influenced

Introduce, introduces, introduced

Invite, invites, invited

Manage, manages, managed

Marry, marries, married

Measure, measures, measured

Move, moves, moved

Receive, receives, received

Reduce, reduces, reduced

Refuse, refuses, refused

Talk, talks, talked

Taste, tastes, tasted

Use, uses, used

Walk, walks, walked

Work, works, worked

Irregular Verb

Sementara Irregular Verb atau strong verb, adalah kata kerja yang bentuk Verb-2 dan Verb-3nya didapat dengan berbagai cara, ada kata kerja yang Verb-2 dan Verb-3nya berbentuk sama saja dengan kata dasarnya. Ada pula yang sangat berbeda antara base form, Verb-2, dan Verb-3nya.

Arise, arises, arose, arisen

Awake, awakes awoke  awoken

Bear, bears bore borne

Beat, beats, beat beaten

Become, becomes became become

Bend, bends bent bent

Begin, begins began begun

Bid, bids bid bid

Bite, bites bit bitten/bit

Blow, blows blew blown

break, breaks broke broken

bring, brings brought brought

broadcast, broadcasts broadcast broadcast

build, builds built built

buy, buys bought bought

catch, catches caught caught

choose, chooses chose chosen

come, comes came come

cost, costs cost  cost

creep, creeps crept crept

cut, cuts cut cut

dig, digs dug dug

dive, dives dived /dove  dived

do, does did done

drag, drags dragged dragged

draw, draws drew drawn

dream, dreams dreamed /dreamt dreamt

drink, drinks drank drunk

Selain itu terdapat kata kerja yang masuk pada bentuk Regular dan Irregular Verb, sedikit contoh beberapa kata kerja ini.

Bless, blessed blessed blest blest

Learn, learned learned learnt learnt

Input, inputted inputted input input