English, like most Germanic languages, has many regular ("weak") verbs, like work, worked, worked (in standard dictionary format, listing present, past, and past participle), and a bewildering ...

Irregular verbs are those that don’t follow the “regular” pattern of inflection. For a regular verb, like “walk,” the pattern is: “I walk a mile every day” (present tense).

kind into how irregular verbs have evolved in literature over the last 1,200 years. Around 97 per cent of verbs in English are regular. That means in the past tense they simply take ...