Simple Past Tense Exercises With Answers

Grammar Exercises – Simple Past Tense

Do the Simple Past Tense Exercises, and Click The Button To Check Your Answers.

(Before doing the exercises, you may want to read the lesson on the simple past tense)

Simple Past Tense Exercises

Put the verbs into the simple past:

  1. Last year I (go) to England on holiday.
  2. It (be) fantastic.
  3. I (visit) lots of interesting places. I (be) with two friends of mine.
  4. In the mornings we (walk) in the streets of London.
  5. In the evenings we (go) to pubs.
  6. The weather (be) strangely fine.
  7. It (not / rain) a lot.
  8. But we (see) some beautiful rainbows.
  9. Where (spend / you) your last holiday?

Write the past forms of the irregular verbs.

Infinitive Simple Past
1.meet
2.drive
3.speak
4.put
5.write
6.sing
7.do
8.sit
9.stand
10.run

Complete the sentences in simple past.

Sentence 1:
  • Affirmative: He wrote a book.
  • Negative:
  • Interrogative:
Sentence 2:
  • Affirmative:
  • Negative: He did not sing
  • Interrogative:
Sentence 3:
  • Affirmative:
  • Negative:
  • Interrogative: Was she pretty?

Put the sentences into simple past.

  1. We move to a new house. →
  2. They bring a sandwich. →
  3. He doesn't do the homework. →
  4. They sell cars. →
  5. Does he visit his friends? →

Write sentences in simple past.

  1. Janet / the bus / miss →
  2. she / her room / tidy →
  3. Nancy / watch / not / television →
  4. she / read / book →

Choose "Was" or "Were":

  1. The teacher nice.
  2. The students very clever.
  3. But one student in trouble.
  4. We sorry for him.
  5. He nice though.

⚠ Warning

Before submitting the test, check the following:

  • Punctuation and capitalization
  • Spelling
  • Spaces (don't add any unnecessary spaces)

Such mistakes would cost you valuable points. Good luck!

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