Common Irregular Verbs

1 13
blow - blew - blown break - broke - learn - learnt - learnt
grow - grew - broken mean - meant -
grown speak – spoke- meant
know - knew - spoken burn - burnt - burnt
known steal - stole - dream - dreamt -
throw -threw – stolen 8 dreamt
thrown choose – chose – spell - spelt - spelt
draw - drew - chosen smell - smelt -

keep - kept - kept bring - brought - spend - spent - spent

sleep - slept - slept brought send - sent - sent
sweep -swept - buy - bought - build - built - built
swept 2 bought lend - lent - lent 14
leave – left - left fight - fought - fought bend - bent - bent
feel - felt - felt think - thought - 9
thought
let - let - let catch - caught - caught have - had - had 15

put - put - put lose - lost - lost

read – read -read drive - drove - driven win - won - won
shut - shut - shut ride - rode - ridden dig - dug - dug
cut - cut - cut rise - rose - risen 10
sit - sat - sat
hit - hit - hit write - wrote - written shine - shone -
hurt - hurt - hurt 3 shone
hold - held – held
make - made –
be - was/were - been
made
do - did - done
drink -drank – find - found – found
eat - ate - eaten
drunk 11 hear – heard -heard
see - saw - seen
begin- began-
go - went - gone
begun
run - ran - run swear – swore -
ring - rang - rung 16
4 give - gave - given sworn
sink - sank - sunk
fall - fell - fallen wear - wore -
sing - sang -
sung worn
5
sell -sold-sold 12 shake - shook -
tell -told-told shaken 17
get - got - got take - took - taken
pay - paid - forget - forgot - forgotten
6
paid stand - stood -
say - said –said stood
lay - laid - laid understand - understood -
understood
feed - fed - fed 7
meet - met - come - came - come
met become – became -
 Past Simple Exercises 1

Fill in the Past Simple form of the verbs in brackets.

1. Last month we …………………….. on a trip to Jerusalem. (go)

2. I ……………….. a good movie last night. (see)
3. We ……….. a tasty vegetables salad yesterday. (make)
4. He ………. to catch the bus but he missed it! (run)
5. Anna ………………. me a funny joke last night. (tell)
6. I …………”goodbye” and …………….. out. (say/go)
7. My parents …………….. home very late last Friday. (come)
8. I ………..my homework and then I ………….all the books into my (do/put)
book.
9. Our teacher ……………………..birthday last week. (have)
10. Maria …………….. a beautiful jacket two hours ago. (wear)
11. I……….. the new song at the party yesterday. (hear)
12. My friends …………... a wonderful present for my (give)
birthday.
13. She ………………. very surprised when she …………..that (be/see)
man there.
14. The pupils…………………….an adventure book last lesson. (read)
15. The boys …………….. ten minutes ago. (meet)
16. Somebody…………………… my money! (steal)

1. Mother …………………….. sick, so she stayed in bed. (feel)

2. I ……………….. ten hours last night. (sleep)
3. Diana …………….... her pet dog to school yesterday. (bring)
4. I ………………………….. you were my best friend (think)
5. The old man ………………. near the window and looked outside.
…………… (stand)
6. I …………….to my old brother last night .He is in France now. (speak)
7. The pupil ……………………….... the math lesson. (understand
)
8. He……………………………. a letter to his friend in England. (write)
9. Yesterday, our dad ……………………..us to the biggest zoo . (take)
10. My glass ……………….. . Please give me another one. (break)
11. The baby……………………… the new newspaper. (tear)
12. They …………... the ball and I …………………it quickly. (throw/
catch)
13. Last year she ………………. her little sister how to cross (teach)
the street.
14. The girls …………………….on the bench in the backyard. (sit)
15. My uncle ………………... me a cool bike two years ago. (buy)
16. The woman…………………… the car slowly because of the rain. (drive)
 Past Simple Exercises 2

Fill in the Past Simple form of the verbs in brackets.

1. I …………………….. all the answers. (know)

2. They ……………….. English songs at school last Monday. (sing)
3. Rita ……………….. to collect coins five years ago.. (begin)
3. We …………………... in the deep end of the pool. It …………. fun! (swim/be)
4. My neighbors ………………. their old car last week. (sell)
6. The girl (ride)
7. The boy …………….. ice cream
………………………. her newand pudding.
bike all day yesterday. (eat)
8. The team……….. the game.. (win)
9. My glasses ……………………..on the shelf. (be)
10. Our class …………….. to Italy last summer. (fly)
11. I……………….. the highest grade in the test last month. (get)
12. My friend …………….... 100 dollars in the park yesterday. (find)
13. The pupils ……………………………..over the ball. (fight)
14. Jack…………………….Dan a postcard from Brazil. (send)
15. Mother …………….. her baby before she………………………to (feed/go)
bed.
16. The car……………………….. a terrible noise on the way home. (make)

1. We …………………….. class at 8 o’clock this morning. (begin)

2. The apartment……………….. a lot of money. (cost)
3. Teacher …………….... that movie for us. (choose)
4. I ………………………….. a ballet dancer in 1997. (become)
5. The old woman ………………. her bag in the supermarket. (forget)
6. He ………..…….the chocolate cake. (cut)
7. The bus driver ……………………….... that little girl to school (bring)
today.
8. My dad……………………… the house early in the morning (leave)
yesterday.
9. Last year I ……………………..my pet snake in a glass cage . (keep)
10. We ……………….. . how to write a thank you note last (learn)
Tuesday.
11. The girl……………………… from the chair and started to (fall)
cry loudly.
12. I ..................... Bob my rollerblades last week. (lend)
13. She ………………. her new pencil case two hours ago .It (lose/be)
……….expensive. Past Simple Exercises 3
14. They …………………….slowly because they…………………..very (run/be)
tired..
15. My aunt ………………... a beautiful picture of the sea. (draw)
16. You…………………… all your money on computer games (spend)
yesterday.
 Change the sentences into the negative form.

Use the verbs in brackets.

Complete the YES/NO questions.

1. Did you go abroad last year? take,go,ride,buy,read,know,wear,have,make

2. ………… she ……………..…anything at the store?
3. …………David ………………the book I gave him?
4.…………. the girl ………………. a donkey?
5. ………… the man ……………… his umbrella?
6. ……………Kate ………………… a red hat last night?
7. ……………you …………………… the answer?
8. …………….they ………………… anew guitar?
9. ……………….the boys …………. a lot of noise yesterday?

Write WH-Questions in the Past Simple.