00:00 - Hello grammarians. 00:01 Today I want to start talking about irregular verbs. 00:03 That is to say verbs that are a little weird. 00:06 You know, we have this idea of a regular verb 00:09 that we can conjugate in all tenses 00:12 and it's just going to behave in a way that we expect. 00:15 Like for example the verb talk. 00:18 So if we take a regular verb 00:20 and we put it in the past, the present, and the future, 00:22 this is what it's going to look like. 00:24 Present tense, 00:25 talk. 00:27 Future tense, 00:29 will talk. 00:32 Past tense, 00:33 talked, with that e-d ending. 00:36 But there are plenty of verbs in English, 00:39 as you have no doubt discovered, 00:40 that don't follow that basic rule. 00:43 Present tense is one form of the verb, 00:45 then the past tense is the present with e-d tacked onto it, 00:49 and then the future with will tacked onto the front. 00:53 And there are plenty of words in English, 00:56 as you have no doubt discovered, 00:57 that don't behave that way at all. 01:00 So let's take another -- 01:01 let's take an irregular word 01:03 like run. 01:07 Present tense, 01:09 run. 01:10 Future tense, 01:11 will run. 01:13 Past tense, 01:14 ran. 01:15 Oh weird. 01:17 Super duper weird. 01:20 Now there are a lot of irregular verbs in English, 01:23 but you're listening to someone 01:24 with a grammar book the size of a car. 01:27 So I think between the two of us 01:28 we can figure this out together. 01:30 But for now, 01:31 let's just focus on four verbs. 01:33 To be, to have, to do, and to say. 01:36 So let's take these verbs 01:37 and make them work for a bunch of different people 01:39 in different times. 01:40 So in the first person, 01:41 when we're talking about ourselves, 01:43 when I'm talking about myself. 01:44 In the present I would say I am. 01:49 I have. 01:51 I do. 01:54 I say. 01:56 If we're talking about someone else, 01:58 in the present in the singular, 02:00 we would say she is, 02:04 she has, 02:07 she does, 02:10 and she says. 02:13 So the third person singular is different 02:16 in the way that these words are pronounced. 02:19 So am because of this entirely different word is, 02:21 have doesn't become haves, 02:25 it's has, 02:26 and do doesn't become does, 02:28 it becomes does, 02:30 we actually change the vowel sound here, 02:32 just like say doesn't become says, 02:34 we don't say she says in standard American English, 02:37 we say she says. 02:40 In the present tense, 02:42 we are, we have, we do, we say. 02:46 And in the past tense in the first person, 02:48 these four verbs form the following: 02:50 I was, 02:54 I had, 02:56 I did, 02:58 and I said. 03:01 And in the plural past it was 03:03 we were, 03:06 we had, 03:09 we did, 03:11 and we said. 03:14 These four verbs are some of the strangest ones in English, 03:16 but they're the most important. 03:18 In another video, 03:19 I'm going to go through some broad rules that govern 03:22 the rest of the irregular verbs in English. 03:25 You can learn anything. 03:26 David, out!