VERBS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO FORM.
Kinds.
244. According to form, verbs are strong or weak.
Definition.
A strong verb forms its past tense by changing the vowel of the present tense form, but adds no ending; as, run, ran; drive, drove.
A weak verb always adds an ending to the present to form the past tense, and may or may not change the vowel: as, beg, begged; lay, laid; sleep, slept; catch, caught.
NOTE. Some of these also have weak forms, which are in parentheses
| Present Tense. | Past Tense. | Past Participle. |
| abide | abode | abode |
| arise | arose | arisen |
| awake | awoke (awaked) | awoke (awaked) |
| bear | bore | borne (active)born (passive) |
| begin | began | begun |
| behold | beheld | beheld |
| bid | bade, bid | bidden, bid |
| bind | bound | bound,[adj. bounden] |
| bite | bit | bitten, bit |
| blow | blew | blown |
| break | broke | broken |
| chide | chid | chidden, chid |
| choose | chose | chosen |
| cleave | clove, clave (cleft) | cloven (cleft) |
| climb | [clomb] climbed | climbed |
| cling | clung | clung |
| come | came | come |
| crow | crew (crowed) | (crowed) |
| dig | dug | dug |
| do | did | done |
| draw | drew | drawn |
| drink | drank | drunk, drank[adj. drunken] |
| drive | drove | driven |
| eat | ate, eat | eaten, eat |
| fall | fell | fallen |
| fight | fought | fought |
| find | found | found |
| fling | flung | flung |
| fly | flew | flown |
| forbear | forbore | forborne |
| forget | forgot | forgotten |
| forsake | forsook | forsaken |
| freeze | froze | frozen |
| get | got | got [gotten] |
| give | gave | given |
| go | went | gone |
| grind | ground | ground |
| grow | grew | grown |
| hang | hung (hanged) | hung (hanged) |
| hold | held | held |
| know | knew | known |
| lie | lay | lain |
| ride | rode | ridden |
| ring | rang | rung |
| run | ran | run |
| see | saw | seen |
| shake | shook | shaken |
| shear | shore (sheared) | shorn (sheared) |
| shine | shone | shone |
| shoot | shot | shot |
| shrink | shrank or shrunk | shrunk |
| shrive | shrove | shriven |
| sing | sang or sung | sung |
| sink | sank or sunk | sunk [adj. sunken] |
| sit | sat [sate] | sat |
| slay | slew | slain |
| slide | slid | slidden, slid |
| sling | slung | slung |
| slink | slunk | slunk |
| smite | smote | smitten |
| speak | spoke | spoken |
| spin | spun | spun |
| spring | sprang, sprung | sprung |
| stand | stood | stood |
| stave | stove (staved) | (staved) |
| steal | stole | stolen |
| stick | stuck | stuck |
| sting | stung | stung |
| stink | stunk, stank | stunk |
| stride | strode | stridden |
| strike | struck | struck, stricken |
| string | strung | strung |
| strive | strove | striven |
| swear | swore | sworn |
| swim | swam or swum | swum |
| swing | swung | swung |
| take | took | taken |
| tear | tore | torn |
| thrive | throve (thrived) | thriven (thrived) |
| throw | threw | thrown |
| tread | trod | trodden, trod |
| wear | wore | worn |
| weave | wove | woven |
| win | won | won |
| wind | wound | wound |
| wring | wrung | wrung |
| write | wrote | written |