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
Drunk Drove
Go Break
Got Overslept
Take Sit
Came Woke
See Run
Shut Wrote
Lend Dig
Stole Brought
Swim Fly

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