The verb drink, drank, drunk has a short i in the present, replaced by a in the past, and by u in the past participle. At least nine common English verbs follow this pattern (not counting variants ...

A handy list of links to resources for teaching verbs Stage 2: Saying what you do. Grammar Tip: 1st and 2nd person endings of regular verbs. Common irregular verbs: être, aller, faire, avoir ...

More obscure irregular verbs, however, are less readily learned and more easily forgotten, ... Less common verbs like ‘dive’ and ‘tread’ only turn up once in every 10,000-100,000 words.