Past Simple: Irregular Verbs
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Past Simple: Irregular Verbs

This ESL worksheet is designed for adults to practice the past simple tense with irregular verbs, guiding them through structured grammar rules and interactive exercises. The lesson features explanations, fill-in-the-blanks, text correction, and sentence rewriting activities to reinforce understanding.

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Study this grammar rule.

The Past Simple tense is used to talk about actions that happened and were completed in the past. For most verbs, you add -ed to the base form. For example, "play" becomes "played," as in "I played soccer yesterday," However, some verbs are irregular and do not follow this rule. Their past forms are different, and you need to remember them. For example, "go" changes to "went," as in "I went to the park." Here is a list of common irregular verbs: 1. eat → ate 2. drink → drank 3. run → ran 4. sit → sat 5. sleep → slept 6. bring → brought 7. build → built 8. feel → felt 9. hold → held 10. leave → left 11. meet → met 12. read → read (same spelling, different pronunciation!) 13. send → sent 14. spend → spent 15. wear → wore
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Complete the sentences using the correct past simple form of the irregular verb in the brackets.

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Complete each sentence using the correct form of the words from the list.

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The text below contains 9 mistakes in the use of past simple verbs. Identify and correct them.

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Rewrite the following sentences in the past simple.

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Discuss these questions.

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