The irregular verbs include many of the most common verbs: the dozen most frequently used English verbs are all irregular. There are a few exceptions: the verb be has irregular forms throughout the present tense the verbs have, do and say have irregular-s forms and certain defective verbs (such as the modal auxiliaries) lack most inflection. The other inflected parts of the verb-the third person singular present indicative in-s, and the present participle and gerund form in-ing-are formed regularly in most cases.
In most cases, the irregularity concerns the past tense (also called preterite) or the past participle.
The English language has a large number of irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use-and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. The second is certain environment does exist in each class and subclasses. The first is English Irregular Verbs fall into five classes of seven ablaut classes. However, there are some verbs which do not belong to the classes discussed. At last, the present researcher continued studying the environment of the vowel sound changing. After that, the classification was made based on the ablaut characteristic in each class. Meanwhile, in the data analysis the present researcher made the identification of the English irregular verbs based on their vowel root.
In collecting the data, the present researcher takes all the irregular verbs in the Oxford English Advanced Dictionary the eight edition as the object of the study listed on page R2 up to R4 in the reference section. In conducting this study, library method is used. The second is to describe what kind of environment exists in each class of the English Irregular Verbs. The first is to find out how the English Irregular Verbs are classified. This study is conducted aim to see the pattern of the sound changing in the English Irregular Verbs especially in the vowel sound. However, considering the different way of changing between the regular and irregular verbs which is in the sound changing, it is very possible to analyze the pattern of the sound changing. It implies that there is no way to learn it but memorizing them randomly. English irregular verbs are those verbs considered as pattern-less.
The Regularity of English Irregular Verbs Seen in the Rule of Ablaut Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University, 2015.
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