Question

What are the verbs that form their past and past participle tense in a different word than adding an ‘ed’?
a) Regular verbs
b) Irregular verbs
c) Infinitives
d) Gerund

Answer 1

Hint: Basically, the past tense is a tense while the past participle is a specific verb form used in the past and present perfect tenses. The past participle is not a tense. It's a form of a verb and can't be used on its own. They use –ed to form regular verbs and –ing to form gerund.

Complete answer : Before attempting to answering the question let us look into the options that we have at hand :-
>Option a: regular verbs - Regular verbs form the past and past participle tense with the addition of –ed at the end of the base form of the verb.
>Option b: irregular verbs - the past and past participle form of an irregular verb is not formed with the addition of –ed at the end of the base form of the verb due to which many irregular verbs have to be remembered.
>Option c: infinitives - infinitives are the base of a verb, often followed by the word – to. Also, it does not form a past participle tense.
>Option d: gerund - gerunds are that form of the verb which ends in –ing, but is used to play the role of a noun. Also, it is not used to form the past participle tense.

Now, if you look into the explanation very carefully you will see that it explains that irregular verbs do not use –ed to form the past and past participle tense. Therefore, the correct answer is “irregular verbs”.

Hence option ‘b’ is the correct answer.

Note: Here we should also remember that past participle is often but it is not always formed by adding the suffix “-ed” to a verb.It can also be paired with auxiliary verbs like was,were,has and had.