This Simple Past Tense of Irregular Verbs Exercise is designed for English language learners. Before you begin, it’s helpful to review the lesson on regular and irregular verbs in the simple past.
Here is a summary!
Grammar Summary
Simple Past Tense: Regular and Irregular Verbs
- Regular verbs add ‘-ed’ to form the simple past tense, like “visited,” “watched,” and “played.” Irregular verbs have different past tense forms, such as “went” for “go,” “was/were” for “be,” and “came” for “come.”
- Most verbs use ‘did not’ (or ‘didn’t’) before the verb in the negative forms (e.g., “I didn’t play…”). For ‘be,’ ‘not’ is used: “I was not happy” or “I wasn’t happy.”
- Most verbs use ‘did’ before the subject in the interrogative forms: “Did you play…?” For ‘be,’ the subject and verb are inverted: “Was he happy?”
