Irregular Verbs (Worksheet 2)

Rewrite each sentence on a separate sheet of paper and fill in the blanks with
the correct form of the irregular verb given before the sentence.

1. lie Deep-sea divers sometimes find treasure that has _______ at the
bottom of the ocean for centuries.

2. eat Have you ever _______ a mango?

3. sing She couldn’t have ______ such a difficult piece without lots of
practice.

4. drive My mother has ______ me to school every day this week.

5. give Who ______ the main talk in assembly yesterday?

6. run Some candidates have ______ for President again and again.

7. break This heat wave has _______ all records.

8. ring I think the doorbell _______ a minute ago.

9. swim Gail ______ out to the raft before supper.

10. rise If the oven isn’t hot enough, the cake won’t ______ properly.

11. sit Nine justices _______ on the Supreme Court.

12. sink The big submarine _____ beneath the surface with hardly a ripple.

13. lay Consulting his charts, the skipper _____ a course to Cape Fear.

14. blow The wind must have _____ forty miles an hour last night.

15. take Sally has _____ a course in electrical engineering.

16. ride The Robbinses have _____ over in their pickup truck.

17. know Margie _____ her answer wasn’t right.

18. do Some of the early settlers _____ their best to make friends with the
natives.

19. fall The barometer has _______ during the day.

20. choose Would you have ______ differently if you had known the
consequences?

21. bring Miriam and Ruth _______ a new spirit of enthusiasm to the
meeting.

22. sit is it all right for those seedlings to be _______ in the sun all this
time?

23. rise A shout _______ fro the bleachers.

24. shrink Either I have grown or this shirt ______ in the wash.

25. go The Coopers have _______ to Mexico for a month.

Write the four basic forms (infinitive, present participle, past, past participle) of
the following irregular verbs (1-5).

Example
PRESENT PAST
INFINITIVE PARTICIPLE PAST PARTICIPLE
rise (is)rising rose (has)risen

1. lie
2. run
3. break
4. lay
5. take