Once the child has mastered this, the next fun step is all the irregular verbs! As with nearly all grammatical rules in English there are always exceptions. If you can remember the pattern it will help you to learn some of the verbs.Before Christmas, Helen wrote a post about teaching children to use the regular past tense.

There are several groups of irregular verbs that behave in the same way. that's simple, I am sure you understood it clearly. sorry, to make the present perfect simple with irregular verbs, I have and then the past participle, eaten. It's different from column 2 and we use it in a different way. So, this is easy to construct and remember it's different from the past simple. Have you eaten? The word again from column 3. We still use the word from column 3, eaten. To make negatives put not after the have. For irregular verbs, that's the word in column 3.

You take a subject I, then your auxiliary verb have, in the present simple and then you use the past participle. How to form the Present Perfect Simple with irregular verbs. The table below shows the form of the past simple for irregular verbs: What have I become? How much has my friend eaten?

If we wish we can place a question word before our interrogative form. This gives us: Have I Become? Has my friend eaten? Again note that we continue to use the past participle from column 3 unlike negatives for the past simple.

To form questions change the position of the subject and the auxiliary verb have. Note in the negative we continue to use the past participle from column 3 unlike negatives for the past simple. To make negatives put not after the auxiliary have. Put this all together and we have: I have become. To form the Present Perfect Simple affirmative take a subject (I, my friend.) and after that put the auxiliary verb have in the corresponding form of the present simple ( I have., my friend has.) and then put the past participle, the word from column 3 of the irregular verb list (became, eaten).

Irregular past tense word list