beat – beat

cost – cost build - built

cut – cut lend – lent
hit – hit send - sent
hurt – hurt spend - spent
let – let
put - put
quit – quit

begin – began break - broke

drink - drank choose – chose
ring – rang freeze – froze
sing – sang steal – stole
stick - stuck speak – spoke
sting – stung wake – woke
swim –swam

blow – blew
drive – drove draw – drew
ride - rode fly – flew
rise – rose grow – grew
write – wrote know – knew
throw – threw
 tear – tore bite – bit
wear – wore hide – hid

take – took hang – hung

mistake – mistook win – won

bleed – bled feel – felt

feed – fed keep – kept
leave-left lose – lost
lead – led mean – meant
meet - met sleep – slept
read – read *
* The past form of read is pronounced like the
color red
bring – brought
buy – bought pay – paid
catch – caught say – said**
fight – fought
** Said rhymes with bed
teach – taught
think – thought

find – found
see- saw sell – sold
give - gave tell – told
eat – ate
fall – fell
sit – sat
run - ran

come –came get – got

become –became
forget -forgot
stand – stood be – was/were
can – could (No past
understand – understood participle)
do – did
go – went sting – stung
have – had
hear – heard
make - made