NEXT UP! 3 190 GRAMMAR 43 Find irregular verbs Reread the text: You have probably seen old buildings and walls missing a brick or two. Isn’t there something sad about crumbling walls? But what if you could turn these cracks into fun and colourful artwork? a) Write down all the verbs you can find. To find a verb in a sentence, ask yourself: What is the action in the sentence? Does it change when the tense changes? Or is it an infinitive verb beginning with to? Example: Present simple: The German artist Jan Vormann likes to patch up crumbling old walls. He fills in the cracks using Lego. Past simple: The German artist Jan Vormann liked to patch up crumbling old walls. He filled in the cracks using Lego. Note: To find verbs in the infinitive, look for words with to in front. The German artist Jan Vormann likes to patch up crumbling old walls. b) Write down the infinitive of each verb. Example: have a to have c) Decide if each verb is regular or irregular. To find out if a verb is regular or irregular, conjugate it in the past simple. A regular verb will take the ending -ed in the past simple: to paint a painted An irregular verb does not take the ending -ed, and its vowel will often change: to sing a sang to take a took to conjugate – beygja (sagnir) past simple – þátíð a vowel – sérhljóði Hæfniviðmið • Sýnt góð tök á orða- forða, meginreglum málnotkunar og notað tengiorð við hæfi.
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