This is the very first exercise in English Fluency building. This articles describes the rules of forming the various forms of Verb. Conventionally the forms of verbs are crammed without knowing the linguistic basics. This article describes why the forms of verbs are formed the way they are

By reading through, you should be able to understand that there is a particular set of motions that the tongue must perform to create the IInd and IIIrd forms of verb. This motion is similar for most of the verbs.

हिंदी मैं पड़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करे 

1. The basics of Verb Forms

English has 3 principal forms of verb. The 2 more verb forms are derived from the infinite Part.

Infinite : Work
Preterit : Worked
Past Participle : Worked

Out of infinite, two more verb forms are derived - Works and Working. In order to be fluent, you must know all the 5 forms.

2. Regular and Irregular verbs

For Regular Verbs, you can derive all forms using the infinite form of verb. Simply Add "ed" to the verb. For Example work is a regular verb.

Irregular verbs follow unusual pattern and often one needs to memorize the forms of verb for Irregular verbs. For Example see ( See- Saw - Seen) or know ( Know - Knew - known).

Naturally we are used to creating the verb forms for Regular verbs, and all the new

3. How tongue forms verbs and Fluency building.

Now comes the interesting part. If you look at the Past participle ( or the IIIrd) form of the verbs, you will realize that the most often end with

- either a sound of '/t'  ( Like Burnt, Learnt)
- or a sound of '/d' ( Like worked, tried, had)
- or a sound of '/n' ( seen, known, flown, driven)

For your tongue all the three sounds of '/t', '/d' and '/n' are pronounced the same. Your Tongue touches the upper palate and then moves away. This is how the tongue creates IIIrd Verb forms.

make the sound of taa , daa or naa, and you will realize that it involves the same kind of tongue aerobatics. It moves to touch the upper palate and then moves away from it.

So, the third forms are made by terminating the verb with a palatal /t /d or /n sound.  This is the rule your tongue follows to create the various forms of verbs.

4. Putting it together in Fluency Building

To master the various forms of verbs, you must speak them out loud. Speaking will help your tongue get acclimatized to a particular motion ( touching the palate and back) for creating the IInd and IIIrd forms.

When you read about the perfect tense, you will realize that the natural pattern for the tongue to follow after have/has/had is to use the third form. Your tongue tries to terminate the has/have/had structures with a third form.