Conjugating Verbs
Regular Verbs
Base Form: risk
Present Tense
Singular Plural
1st Person I risk we risk
2nd Person you risk you risk
3rd Person he, she, it risks they risk
Past Tense
Singular Plural
1st Person I risked we risked
2nd Person you risked you risked
3rd Person he, she, it risked they risked
Future Tense (will or shall + Base Form)
Singular Plural
1st Person I will risk we will risk
2nd Person you will risk you will risk
3rd Person he, she, it will risk they will risk
Irregular Verbs and Verb Participles
Base Form: be
Present Tense
Singular Plural
1st Person I am we are
2nd Person you are you are
3rd Person he, she, it is they are
Past Tense
Singular Plural
1st Person I was we were
2nd Person you were you were
3rd Person he, she, it was they were
Future Tense
Singular Plural
1st Person I will be we will be
2nd Person you will be you will be
3rd Person he, she, it will be they will be
Base Form: have
Present Tense
Singular Plural
1st Person I have we have
2nd Person you have you have
3rd Person he, she, it has they have
Past Tense
Singular Plural
1st Person I had we had
2nd Person you had you had
3rd Person he, she, it had they had
Future Tense
Singular Plural
1st Person I will have we will have
2nd Person you will have you will have
3rd Person he, she, it will have they will have
Perfect Tenses
Present Perfect Tense
(have or has + past participle – in this case: risked)
used to express an action that occurred at some indefinite time in the past.
Example: Clive Owen has performed roles in King Arthur and Sin City.
Singular Plural
1st Person I have risked we have risked
2nd Person you have risked you have risked
3rd Person he, she, it has risked they have risked
Past Perfect Tense
(had + past participle – in this case: risked)
used to express an action completed in the past before some other past occurrence.
Example: The kingdom had suffered before Beowulf arrived.
Singular Plural
1st Person I had risked we had risked
2nd Person you had risked you had risked
3rd Person he, she, it had risked they had risked
Future Perfect Tense
(will have + past participle – in this case: risked)
used to express an action that will be completed in the future before some other future occurrence.
Example: By this time tomorrow, I will have memorized “The Seafarer.”
Singular Plural
1st Person I will have risked we will have risked
2nd Person you will have risked you will have
1st Person he, she, it will have risked they will have risked
Some Common Irregular Verbs
Base Present Past Past
Form Participle participle
bring is bringing brought have brought *
buy is buying bought have bought
come is coming came have come *
eat is eating ate have eaten
go is going went have gone *
see is seeing saw have seen
steal is stealing stole have stolen
take is taking took have taken *
throw is throwing threw have thrown
Note: There are no such words as bringed, see-ed, go-ed, stealed, taked, tooked, throwed, or conversate.