The simple past tense is formed by adding – ed to the word.

Example:
work, worked.

Irregular verbs change completely in the past tense.
Examples:
take, took. Speak, spoke.
You just have to learn them!

Fill in the correct form of the verb in the sentences below:

1. We ___ a new car yesterday. (buy)
2. Nita ___ Marathi at home before she went to school. (speak)
3. Sheela __ hard for a living. (work
4. I ___ my homework before I went out to play. (do)
5. Ali __ home half an hour ago. (leave)
6. Nutan ___ there for two years before she was transferred. (live)
7. Anwar quickly ___ the room when the doorbell rang. (tidy)
8. Varun ___ my watch by six o’clock yesterday. (repair)
9. I ___ computer games until very late last night. (play)
10. Seema ___ me with my homework yesterday. (not help)
11. Anu ___ lunch before her brother came home. (not cook)
12. Surinder was tired because he __ his car for six hours. (drive)
13. I ___ my book before the film started. (finish)
14. Sachin ___ the award last year. (win)
15. She ___ her own clothes since she was thirteen. (make)
16. Mona realised that she __ her purse. (lose)
17. I ___ the film when you phoned me. (not watch)
18. After my friend ___, I began studying. (leave)
19. I ___ my keys at school yesterday. (forget)
20. My clothes were dirty because I ___ all day. (work)
21. When the lights went off, she __ by (read) by candlelight.
22. Farah ___ in the garden when it began to rain. (play)
23. Where ___ you __ your holidays last year? (spend)
24. He ___ the car engine last week. (repair)
25. Shyam ___ his test. He was very sad. (fail)
26. Ranbir ___ to the club when I saw him. (go)
27. I __ for three hours in the park this afternoon. (run)
28. Who __ you at the railway station yesterday? (meet)
29. We ___ a test at ten o’clock yesterday. (write)
30. He ___ so hard that tears came into his eyes. (laugh)

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