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Writing in Professional Context 2

HOW TO CHANGE THE REGULAR VERB

Verb is part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages. In linguistics[A2] verb is word or group of words that functions as the predicate of a sentence or introduces the predicate. Every sentences need a verb to make it complete and has right meaning of the sentence, verb is important part from a sentence because with verb we can identify kind of sentence it is statement, question, command and examination, verb also has grammatical properties like person and number. Verb also has special grammatical properties they are tenses, voice, mood, and aspect. Many kind of verb in English there are:

· Auxiliary Verb

Determine the mood or tense of another verb in a phrase.

· A lexical verb

Conveys a real meaning and doesn't depend on another verb.

· Dynamic Verbs

A dynamic verb indicates an action, process, or sensation.

· Stative verbs

A stative verb (such as be, have, know, like, own, and seem) describes a state, situation, or condition.

· Finite Verbs

A finite verb expresses tense and can occur on its own in a main clause.

· Nonfinite Verb

Doesn't show a distinction in tense and can occur on its own only in a dependent phrase or clause.

· Regular Verb

(Also known as a weak verb) forms its past tense and past participle by adding -d or –ed (or in some cases -t) to the base form.

· Irregular verb

(Also known as a strong verb) doesn't form the past tense by adding -d or –ed.

· Transitive Verb

A transitive verb is followed by a direct object.

· Intransitive Verb

An intransitive verb doesn't take a direct object.

There are some kinds of verb, but I will explain about REGULAR VERB.

Regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical grammatical inflections of the language to which it belongs. Verbs which normal rule the form generally in past was made by adding –ed or –d. Regular verb is important for complete a sentence, and regular verb need a Subject and a object for make it became a complete sentence, regular verb use for express in a action, a regular verb different with irregular verb. If in irregular verb many rule that must we give attention but in regular verb it is normal rule so the student can look the different from regular and irregular verb. Regular verb use [A3] in all of kind sentence but we need the other part like to be, to can identify the different of sentences. But not [A4] easy to study regular verb although it is normal rule but many rule that must we give attention. A common error for is to conjugate irregular verbs as though they were regular. This is regarded as evidence that we learn and process our native language partly by the application of rules, rather than, as some earlier scholarship had postulated, solely by learning the forms. In fact, children often use the most common irregular verbs correctly in their earliest utterances but then switch to incorrect regular forms for a time when they begin to operate systematically. That allows a fairly precise analysis of the phases of this aspect of first language acquisition. I will explain about the rule for make[A5] a regular verb.

1. In a general way to make past tense and past participle, add –ed in form base of the regular verb. The pattern INFINITIVE + ED.

Example :

Infinitive ( V1 )	Past Tense	Past Participle
Help Add Look	Helped Added Looked	Helped Added Looked

2. If regular verb that base form is ending[A6] by vocal –e, just add –d for make[A7] past tense or past participle.

Example :

Infinitive ( V1 )	Past Tense	Past Participle
Close Live Advise	Closed Lived Advised	Closed Lived Advised

3. If regular verb that base form ending by letter y and preceded with a consonant, y replace with I, and add –ed.

Example :

Infinitive ( V1 )	Past Tense	Past Participle
Carry Try Cry	Carried Tried Cried	Carried Tried Cried

4. If regular verb that base form ending by letter y and preceded with a vocal, y didn’t change just add –ed only.

Example :

Infinitive ( V1 )	Past Tense	Past Participle
Play Pray convey	Played Pray Conveyed	Played Pray Conveyed

5. If regular verb that base form ending by a consonant and preceded by a vocal, letter consonant it become double, and then add –ed.

Example :

Infinitive ( V1 )	Past Tense	Past Participle
Beg Rob Jig	Begged Robbed Jigged	Begged Robbed Jigged

6. If regular verb that base form ending letter consonant l and preceded by a vocal, letter consonant l become double, and then add –ed.

Example :

Infinitive ( V1 )	Past Tense	Past Participle
Cancel Travel Propel	Cancelled Travelled Propelled	Cancelled Travelled Propelled

But if letter l preceded by two vocal, consonant l not double.

Example :

Infinitive ( V1 )	Past Tense	Past Participle
Assail conceal	Assailed concealed	Assailed concealed

7. If verb that base form ending by a consonant and preceded by a vocal and didn’t one syllable, but the pressure fall in the last syllable.

Example :

Infinitive ( V1 )	Past Tense	Past Participle
Admit Allot Occur	Admitted Allotted Occurred	Admitted Allotted Occurred

8. If regular verb that base form ending by a consonant and preceded by a vocal, and has two syllable and the pressure fall in the first syllable, the last consonant didn’t double, just add –ed.

Example :

Infinitive ( V1 )	Past Tense	Past Participle
Follow Suffer Visit	Followed Suffered Visited	Followed Suffered Visited

9. If regular verb that base form ending by consonant c and preceded by a vocal, consonant c must followed consonant k, and then add –ed.

Example :

Infinitive ( V1 )	Past Tense	Past Participle
Frolic Panic Picnic	Frolicked Panicked Picnicked	Frolicked Panicked Picnicked

Regular verb in a tense

Simple past tense use V2.

Example : I studied English last night.

Present perfect use V3.

Example : I have studied English for two hours

Past perfect use V3.

Example : I had had eaten breakfast after took a bath.

And so too in passive voice regular verb usually used because passive voice form from to be + V3.

Regular verb in a text.

Example : Over the doctor’s came a call from a man who said that his small son had swallowed his pen. The doctor said, “ I’ll come at one, what are you doing in the meantime?” “I’m using my pencil,” the man answered.

Regular verb in conversation.

Example :

Rani : What are you doing last night?

Susi : I studied English last night and you?

Rani : I watched television last night.

Rani : where are you going yesterday, why you didn’t enter to the class?

Susi : I went to my grandmother house yesterday.

According to me regular verb [A8] is one of kind verb, regular we know that regular verb is important to learn because regular verb can help us to make a verb in a past. And many tenses in grammar use regular verb, when we talked with someone we must know about the rule and the condition if we talk about condition in past it is mean [A9] that we must use verb in past like regular verb or irregular verb, many different between regular in irregular. Learn regular verb is more easy compare study irregular verb, because make regular verb usually just add –ed in the last letter. But of course we must paying[A10] attention because to make regular verb also has a special rule and we need to study about it so that we could make regular accord with the right rule.

Regular verb is important to learn because it help[A11] us to know what form past from a verb, and it also help us to make a sentence use simple past, present perfect, past perfect, and also for passive voice, with learn regular verb we can know about kind of sentence and can make the different between the other tenses. Help us to do conversation to talk about past condition and to make a text too, so regular verb is needed to learn by us to make our speaking, writing, and grammar to be better.