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PAST TENSE

Irregular Verbs

Most verbs in English make the past tense by adding -ed (like work → worked).
But some verbs are irregular, which means their past tense form is different and must be memorized.

Examples:

• go → went
• buy → bought
• eat → ate
• drive → drove
• fall → fell
• find → found
• hit → hit
• grow → grew
• win → won
• steal → stole

We use the past tense to talk about actions that happened before now.

Exercises

Complete the following sentences with the Past Tense form of the irregular verbs in parentheses.

1. She _______ (eat) pizza for lunch yesterday. (She ate pizza for lunch yesterday.)

2. We _______ (go) to the beach last weekend.

3. He _______ (buy) a new watch two days ago.

4. They _______ (see) a good movie last night.

5. I _______ (write) three emails this morning.

6. Maria _______ (take) the bus to work yesterday.

7. The children _______ (run) quickly to the playground.

8. My father _______ (teach) me how to drive last year.

9. We _______ (drink) tea together in the afternoon.

10. He _______ (break) his phone last week.