This document provides exercises on using simple past tense verbs in English. It includes lists of regular and irregular verbs and their simple past forms, sentences to complete using simple past verbs, and questions to reorder into question form using simple past verbs. The exercises are meant to practice forming and using simple past tense verbs in English.

1. SIMPLE PAST OF REGULAR
AND IRREGULAR VERBS

2. EXERCISES

3. GIVE THE –ED FORM OF THESE VERBS.
1. count __counted___________
2. Stop _stopped____________
3. Smile _smiled_____________
4. Rain __rained____________
5. Help __helped____________
6. Erase __erased____________
7. Clap _clapped____________
8. Rub __rubbed____________
9. Study _studied_____________
10.Stay __stayed____________
11.Worry __worried____________
12.Dream __dreamed____________

4. Write the –ed form of the given verbs
according to the stress.
1. Answer __answered_____________
2. Prefer __preferred_____________
3. Happen __happened_____________
4. Visit __visited_____________
5. Permit __permitted_____________
6. Listen __listened_____________
7. Offer __offered_____________
8. Occur __occurred_____________
9. Open __opened_____________
10. Refer __referred_____________
11. Enter __entered_____________

5. E X A M P L E

6. Complete the sentences using “last ” or
“yesterday”.
1. I dreamed about you __last_______ night.
2. I was downtown __yesterday________morning.
3. Two students were absent __last____Friday.
4. I visited my relatives in San Francisco __last____month.
5. My mother washed the kitchen floor __yesterday___ morning.
6. I visited my aunt and uncle ___last_______ fall.
7. Roberth walked home __yesterday___ afternoon.
8. We watched Tv ___last________ night.
9. My wife and I moved into a new house __last____ year.
10.My sister arrived in Los Angeles ___last______ summer.

7. Complete the sentences with the verbs in the box.
Use the –ed forms. Use each verb only once.
1. The teacher __answered______ a question for me in class.
2. Yesterday I __visited_____ my aunt and uncle at their home.
3. We __listened_____ to some music after dinner last night.
4. It was okay for the children to have some candy after lunch. Mrs. King
__permitted______ them to have a little candy.
5. I __opened______ the window because the room was hot.
6. A car accident __occurred_______ at the corner of 5th Street and Main
yesterday.
7. A bicycle accident __happened______ on Forest Avenue yesterday.
8. My friend poured a glass of water and held it toward me. She asked me if I
wanted it. She ___offered______ me a glass of water.
9. A man unlocked the gate and __admitted_____ the sports fans into the
stadium
Admit listen open
Answer occur permit
Happen offer visit

8. Put the verbs in parentheses in the simple past.
Two summers ago, we took (take) our vacation in Vancouver.
We drove (drive) there from San Francisco, but our car broke
(break) down on the freeway and we spent (spend) the first
night in Seattle. When we got (get) to Vancouver, we couldn’t
find a hotel – they were (be) all full.
We did not know (not know) what to do, but we finally found
(find) a bed and breakfast, and we stayed (stay) there for the
week.
We saw (see) the botanical gardens, went (go) to an arts festival,
and bought (buy) a lot of souvenirs. We wanted (want) to go to
Victoria, but we did not have (not have) enough time. The
weather were (be) good, but it started (start) raining the day we
left (leave).

9. Reorder the words to make questions.
When did you go on vacation? go/where / vacation / you / on /
did.
Chicago.
Did you have a good time? time/ did / have/ good / you / a.
Yes, it was great.
Who did you go with? with / did / who/ go / you.
With some friends.
Where did you stay? stay / where / did / you.
At a hotel.
Why didn’t you like it? you/ it/ why / didn’t/ like.
Because it was noisy and expensive.

10. SIMPLE PAST OF IRREGULAR
VERBS LIST

11. Comprehensive List of Irregular Verbs
Infinitive Simple Past
to awake awoke or awaked
to be was, were
to beat beat
to become became
to begin began
to bend bent
to bet bet
to bite bit
to blow blew
to break broke
to bring brought
to build built
to buy bought
to catch caught
to choose chose
to come came
to cost cost
to creep crept
to cut cut
to deal dealt
to dig dug
to do did
to draw drew
to dream dreamed or dreamt
to drink drank
to drive drove
to eat ate
to fall fell

12. to feed fed
to feel felt
to fight fought
to find found
to fly flew
to forget forgot
to forgive forgave
to freeze froze
to get got
to give gave
to go went
to grow grew
to hang [to suspend] hung
to have had
to hear heard
to hide hid
to hit hit
to hurt hurt
to keep kept
to know knew
to lead led
to leave left
to lend lent
to let let
to lie [to rest or recline] lay
to light lighted or lit
to lose lost
to make made

13. to pay paid
to quit quit
to read read
to ride rode
to run ran
to say said
to see saw
to seek sought
to send sent
to set set
to shake shook
to shine [to glow] shone
to show showed
to sing sang
to sit sat
to sleep slept
to speak spoke
to spend spent
to stand stood
to steal stole
to stink stank or stunk
to swear swore
to sweep swept
to swim swam
to take took
to teach taught

14. to tell told
to think thought
to throw threw
to understand understood
to wake woke or waked
to wear wore
to weave wove or weaved
to write wrote