Regular and Irregular Verbs

If we examine the different forms of certain verbs we shall see certain marked differences.

Some verbs have a simple rule when we need to use the past or past participle.  The verb bake gives baked, baked while the verb go gives go, went, gone.

We see that the forms of the verb bake are formed regularly from a single root, while the verb go has an irregular formation for expressing its relations of time.

As these two verbs can fairly stand as types of different classes of verbs, we see that verbs are divided into two classes, called regular and irregular.

The regular verbs are called sometimes weak verbs, and irregular verbs are called strong verbs.