 These 21 short videos will help you quickly see and understand the relationships and patterns among various types of irregular verbs in English so that you can use them correctly. Verbs like pay. This video will help you see relationships among various types of irregular verbs in English. The key to understanding irregular verbs is to look for and notice the patterns. Verbs like pay use an AID ending in the past in the past participle. Let's look at some examples. Lay, laid, laid. Pay, paid, paid. Now look at the next one. With this one the spelling is the same as the ones above however the pronunciation is different. Say, said, said. The pronunciation is a short E sound, eh, said in both the past and the past participle. Also with the S form we don't say says, we say says short E eh sound. The last one is play. Now with play this is a regular verb so it doesn't change the ending. It uses the E-D ending but the pronunciation is similar to the ones above. Play, played, played.