Regular And Irregular Verbs Exercises
An English verb can be regular or irregular. Regular verbs form their past and past participle forms by adding –ed.
Examples are given below.
Irregular verbs are often the most commonly used verbs in the language. In linguistic analysis, the concept of an irregular verb is most likely to be used in psycholinguistics, and in first-language acquisition studies, where the aim is to establish how the human brain processes its native language. Past simple: regular and irregular verbs. Complete the sentences. Ejemplo: I didn´t watch TV last night. On Saturday I ______ (play) computer. Regular verbs PDF exercise 1 - 2 + Key to regular verbs Changes in spelling of regular forms. Irregular verbs PDF exercises 1 - 2 + Key with answers 1 Past simple: Fill in the missing forms. Find the past tense in the word chain.
Walk – walked – walked
Dance – danced – danced
Paint – painted – painted
Work – worked – worked
Irregular verbs form their past and past participle forms in different ways.
There are mainly three types of irregular verbs.
Verbs in which all the three forms are the same (e.g. put – put – put)
Verbs in which two of the three forms are the same (e.g. sit – sat – sat)
Verbs in which all three forms are different (e.g. drink – drank – drunk)
Some verbs can be both regular and irregular. Examples are:
Burn – burnt – burnt (irregular)
Burn – burned – burned (regular)
Dream – dreamt – dreamt (irregular)
Dream – dreamed – dreamed (regular)
Lean – lent – lent (irregular)
Lean – leaned – leaned (regular)
Learn – learnt – learnt (irregular)
Learn – learned – learned (regular)
Leap – leapt – leapt (irregular)
Leap – leaped – leaped (regular)
Smell – smelt – smelt (irregular)
Smell – smelled – smelled (regular)
Spill – spilt – spilt (irregular)
Spill – spilled – spilled (regular)
Regular And Irregular Verbs Exercises For Beginners
Spoil – spoilt – spoilt (irregular)
Spoil – spoiled – spoiled (regular)
Complete the following sentences using the past or past participle form of the verb given in the brackets.
1. It has been ages since I last ……………… him. (see)
2. The old man has ………………. better days (see)
3. The cat ………………. all the milk. (drink)
4. The child has ………………… all the milk. (drink)
Answers
1. It has been ages since I last saw him.
2. The old man has seen better days
3. The cat drank all the milk.
4. The child has drunk all the milk.
See also PDF exercises below.
Past simple
Past simple + past participle
PDF exercises (worksheets)
Malayalam news tv flash live. Regular verbs PDF exercise 1 - 2 + Key to regular verbs Changes in spelling of regular forms.
Irregular verbs PDF exercises 1 - 2 + Key with answers 1 Past simple: Fill in the missing forms. Find the past tense in the word chain.
Irregular verbs PDF exercise 3 - 4 + Key with answers 2 Past simple and past participle: Complete sentences with words in brackets. Correct mistakes.
Irregular verbs PDF exercise 5 - 6 + Key with answers 3 Past simple and past participle: Fill in the missing forms. Complete sentences.
Regular and irregular verbs list PDF
Regular verbs list PDF with spelling changes (like - liked, copy - copied, chat - chatted).
Irregular verbs list PDF A basic list of the most common verbs used in everyday English.
Full list of irregular verbs PDF The more complete list which is longer than the first one.
You can download all three regular and irregular verbs lists for free.