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Irregular verbs 1

What are irregular verbs?

English irregular verbs have different rules when forming the past tense (for past simple) and the past participle (for present perfect, past perfect, future perfect tenses). All English auxiliary verbs (be, do, and have) are also irregular.

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Verb list

This list has twenty commonly used irregular verbs (Irregular verbs list part 1).

Base form

Past tense form

Past participle form
be was, were been
bring brought brought
buy bought bought
cost cost cost
do did done
drink drank drunk
eat ate eaten
fly flew flown
forget forgot forgotten
go went gone
have had had
leave left left
lose lost lost
meet met met
read read /red/ read /red/
see saw seen
sleep slept slept
spend spent spent
swim swam swum
write wrote written

Quizzes

Quiz 1: Past simple form

A family holiday last year

[Topic: Travel]

Select the irregular verbs in the past simple tense form.

1. The family ______ [leave] home at 8 o’clock in the morning ...

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2. ... and they ______ [go] to the airport by car.

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3. At the airport, the parents ______ [drink] coffee ...

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4. ... and their children ______ [eat] breakfast.

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5. Then, at 11 o’clock they ______ [fly] to the south of Spain for their summer holiday.

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6. The mum ______ [read] a magazine on the plane, ...

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7. ... but the dad ______ [forget] his book, ...

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8. So, he and the children ______ [sleep] during the flight!

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9. It ______ [be] really hot in Spain and ...

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10. and so they ______ [buy] a lot of cold drinks.

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11. On their first day, they ______ [spend] the whole afternoon relaxing by the swimming pool.

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12. The mum ______ [bring] her reading book ...

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13. ... and the dad ______ [swim] with the kids. They all had a really great time!

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14. In the evening, they ______ [have] dinner at the hotel ...

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15. ... and the mum ______ [write] some postcards to friends and family.

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16. Later in the week, they ______ [meet] another family ...

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17. and they ______ [do] some sightseeing together.

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18. Their holiday ______ [cost] a lot of money, ...

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19. ... but they ______ [see] a lot of interesting places.

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20. Unfortunately, the dad ______ [lose] his camera on their last day!

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