 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 where? 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. 14. Verbs like where? Verbs like where shift vowel sounds in the past and past participle. They also take on the R-N ending in the past participle. Let's look at some examples. With verbs like where, there is a sound shift in the past and past participle and it's the same vowel sound in both those forms. But the difference here is that in the past participle there is an N ending. Look at the examples bear, bore, borne, swear, swore, sworn, wear, wore, worn, tear, tore, torn.