This document provides examples of changing verbs from present to past tense (irregular verbs) in 3 sentences or less. It includes filling in blanks with past tense verbs, forming affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences, and rewriting incorrect sentences in the past tense.

1. PAST SIMPLE: IRREGULAR VERBS
1. Change the verbs form present to past
simple:
1. Anne meets her friends on Saturday.
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2. My father doesn’t drive to the bank.
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3. Carol takes the school bus with me.
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4. My parents don’t drink coffee after lunch.
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5. Does Sally swim well?
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6. I usually sleep 7 hours.
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7. My sister doesn’t come to my school.
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8. The children leave for school at 8:15 a.m.
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9. Tom sees Mary quite often.
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3. Fill in the gaps with the past simple of the
verbs below.
HAVE / NOT GO /RIDE / TELL/ COME/ NOT READ/ BUY/
WEAR/ NOT RUN/ BE/ LOSE/ SING/ NOT FEEL
1. I ____________ my bike on Friday afternoon.
2. My father’s car ___________ down yesterday.
3. We ____________ for the bus, so we _________
late for school.
5. Peter _____________ the book I __________
him.
6. They ___________ an enormous dinner!
7. _________ Susan________ shorts or a tracksuit
yesterday?
8. Some children ____________ to school
yesterday.
9. Carol _____________ home after lunch.
10. My sister _____________ very well last week.
11. They _____________ lots of Christmas carols.
12. ___________ Sue __________ apples?
13. My granddad ____________ his glasses.
2. Make affirmative (+), negative (-) or
interrogative (?) sentences: add the necessary
words.
1. The doctor/ give/ me/ injection (+)
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2. Paul/ get/ nice birthday present (?)
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3. We/have/ milk/ biscuits/ breakfast (+)
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4. Tony/send/ email/ Sally (-)
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5. Carol/make/ tea/ (+), but she/drink/it (-)
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6. you/sit/next to/ Peter/ class(?)
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7. The children/write/essays/time (+)
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8. Sam/ do/homework/yesterday (-)
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9. They/eat/Chinese food/ Saturday (?)
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4. Rewrite the wrong sentences:
1. Sam’s parents didn’t sold him a new laptop.
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2. Did you see Peter ago two days?
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3. My brother tought our sister was stupid!
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4. The children fighted in the school yard.
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5. Mary forgotten to bring the dictionary.
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6. Who choose Tim’s present?
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7. The baby falled down.
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8. Adam did spend a lot of money on CDs.
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9. Some students didn’t spoke English in class
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10. We swum in the river in summer.
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