Lab Activities
Lab Activity 38: Irregular Verbs
 
Objective To recognize and write irregular verbs and correct verb tenses.

Example:
Use the past participle of know.
Verb form: I have known Roger Lantell since he was a baby.

       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



      Step 3: Read the paragraph below. Then, answer the questions that follow.
(1) I become interested in poetry when I was quite young. (2) I was influenced by an aunt who had been an English major in college. (3) I had consider Aunt Alexia something like my second mom. (4) Whenever I saw Aunt Alexia, she give me a book of poetry to read. (5) I discovering Emily Dickenson's haunting poems that way. (6) I also will have fallen in love with Dylan Thomas's singing poetry, thanks to another book loan from Alexia. (7) At family gatherings, Alexia and I had been known to sneak off together to work our way through one of Shakespeare's sonnets. (8) I be in college myself now, and I still love poetry. (9) Whenever I have gotten the chance, I call Aunt Alexia to read my own poems to her. (10) I will have sent some of my poems to our school's poetry magazine. (11) They were rejected, but Alexia continues to encourage me to submit my writing for publication. (12) The rejections hurt, but I will give the magazine even more of my work. (13) In any case, I writing for my most important audience, Aunt Alexia.

1. The writer should correct sentence 1 to read as follows: [Hint]



      2. The writer should correct sentence 4 to read as follows: [Hint]



      3. In which sentence are all the verbs correct? [Hint]



      4. The writer should correct sentence 6 to read as follows: [Hint]



      5. In which sentence are all the verbs correct? [Hint]



      6. The writer should correct sentence 8 to read as follows: [Hint]



      7. The writer should correct sentence 9 to read as follows: [Hint]



      8. Which of the following sentences uses a present participle as an adjective? [Hint]



      9. The writer should correct sentence 10 to read as follows: [Hint]



      10. The writer should correct sentence 13 to read as follows: [Hint]



       

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.



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