English regular verbs change their form very little (unlike irregular verbs). The past tense and past participle of regular verbs end in -ed, for example:
work, worked, worked
But you should note the following points:
1. Some verbs can be both regular and irregular, for example:
learn, learned, learned
learn, learnt, learnt
2. Some verbs change their meaning depending on whether they are regular or irregular, for example "to hang":
| regular | hang, hanged, hanged | to kill or die, by dropping with a rope around the neck |
| irregular | hang, hung, hung | to fix something (for example, a picture) at the top so that the lower part is free |
3. The present tense of some regular verbs is the same as the past tense of some irregular verbs:
| regular | found, founded, founded |
| irregular | find, found, found |
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