Past Tense Irregular Verbs

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Past Tense Irregular Verbs 
 
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A) Change the verbs in brackets into the past tense. Some are regular and some are irregular. 
Yesterday (to be) _______________ a busy day. I (wake) _______________ up at 6am, (have) 
_______________ breakfast quickly and then I (go) _______________ to work. I (finish) 
_______________ at noon and then (eat) _______________ some lunch. Afterwards I (drive) 
_______________ to the shops, (buy) _______________ some paint and then (paint) _______________ 
my bedroom. My housemate (come) _______________ home from work so I (help) _______________ 
him paint his room, then we (repair) _______________ his chair as it (wobble) _______________ a lot. I 
(wish) _______________ I hadn’t, as I hurt my hand! After that I (clean) _______________ my house. I 
(vacuum) _______________ all the downstairs and then (tidy) _______________ up the living room 
and the kitchen. I was pretty tired by then so I (eat) 
ate
some dinner, (yawn) _______________, and 
(go) _______________ to bed! 
B) Change the verbs below into the past tense and put them into the correct place in the sentences 
Pay :: Ring :: Think :: Drink :: See :: Eat :: Go :: Take :: Leave :: Say 
1. I _________________ that he was fired. 
2. My mum _________________ me last night but I wasn’t at home to take her answer. 
3. I _________________ to the zoo with my son last weekend. 
4. I _________________ four cakes for lunch. I feel sick! 
5. He _________________ him to see the doctor because he had been ill for so long. 
6. I _________________ that new movie last night. It was great! 
7. He _________________ his son alone all day! 
8. I _________________ two bottle of grape juice last night. I don’t feel too well today. 
9. They _________________ it tasted horrible. 
10. It was too expensive and we _________________ too much for it. 
C) Complete the tables below: 
 
Present 
Past 
 
Present 
Past 
Hear 
 
Be 
 
 
Left 
 
Put 
Ring 
 
Think 
 
 
Drank 
 
Drove 
Go 
 
Break 
 
 
Got 
 
Overslept 
Take 
 
Sit 
 
 
Came 
 
Woke 
See 
 
Run 
 
 
Shut 
 
Wrote 
Lend 
 
Dig 
 
 
Stole 
 
Brought 
Swim 
 
Fly 
 
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