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Simple Past (exercises)
Write the past simple form of each verb.
1. do - ___________
2. buy - ___________
3. come - ___________
4. hear - ___________
5. feed - ___________
6. hurt - ___________
7. forget - ___________
8. write - ___________
9. think - ___________
10. speak - ___________
Write the past simple form of each verb.
1. begin - ___________
2. find - ___________
3. tell - ___________
4. steal - ___________
5. swear - ___________
6. take - ___________
7. let - ___________
8. keep - ___________
9. freeze - ___________
10. bring - ___________
Complete the chart.
Base - Simple Past - Past Participle
● Teach - Taught - Taught
● Shoot - ___________ - Shot
● ___________ - Ran - ___________
● Fight - ___________ - ___________
● ___________ - ___________ - Had
● Win - ___________ - Won
● Take - Took - ___________
● ___________ - Shook - Shaken
● Drive - Drove - ___________
● Bring - ___________ - Brought
Choose the correct verb form of the following sentences!
1. I take/took my father to Spain last week.
2. Did you hear/heard me?
3. I breaked/broke a cup yesterday.
4. Where did that woman keep/kept all her money?
5. I see/saw Eric in the supermarket yesterday.
6. Mary didn’t like/liked her teacher.
7. Mary come/came to see us at the weekend.
8. Peter didn’t wrote/write to me for a long time.
9. Derek learn/learnt English when he was young.
10. I didn’t saw/see Bill at the party.
11. The train didn’t arrives/arrive on time.
12. Sorry – I forget/forgot to buy milk.
13. Did John brought/bring his wife with him?
14. I didn’t felt/feel well last night.
15. Did Fred spoke/speak to you about Andy?
Fill in the blanks with the past simple form of the verb in parentheses.
1. A mosquito ___________ (bite) me!
2. Grandpa ___________ (catch) eight fish on our fishing trip.
3. When Whitney stepped in the gum, her flip-flop ___________ (stick) to it.
4. They ___________ (wake) up at 4:30 a.m. to catch their 7:00 flight.
5. We ___________ (fly) from New York to Atlanta for the conference last month.
6. My stomach ___________ (feel) strange for hours after I ate that old bread.
7. Stephanie ___________ (give) her sister a CD for her birthday.
8. Ben and Matt ___________ (make) a movie about a really smart janitor at Harvard.
9. The dog ___________ (dig) a hole in the yard.
10. I stepped in the hole and ___________ (break) my ankle.
Fill in the blanks with the past simple form of one of the following
verbs: go, be,see, drink, swim, eat, fall, get, blow, hit. Some verbs may be used more
than once.
Alicia’s birthday party ___________ a lot of fun. We ___________ all so happy to be
together. We ___________ for a walk on the nature trail, where we ___________ a snake!
Then we ___________ in the lake. That ___________ fun until Joey ___________ off of
the rope swing and ___________ his head. Then we decided to stop swimming, and Alicia
opened her gifts. She ___________ lots of great presents. After that, she ___________ out
the candles on her cake, and we ___________ cake, ___________ soda and played games
until dark.
