Exercise 25 Simple Past Tense Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in simple past or past progressive tense.. Example: Colleen determine determined simple
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1) The moon (to come) out late last night
2) Jessica (to lose) her first tooth this morning
3) My entire family (to catch) the flu last winter
4) The employees _ (to do) a lot of work today
5) The swimmers (to hold) their breath and jumped in the water
6) The baker _ (to make) a cake for my birthday
7) They _ (to take) a picture of the mountain
8) The teacher _ (to teach) the students chemistry last year
9) I _ (to wear) my jacket to work yesterday
10) We (to go) to the zoo last weekend
10) Tom _ (to write) his family a letter
12) I (to see) a movie last night
Exercise 25 (Simple Past Tense)
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in simple past or past progressive tense Example: Colleen (determine) determined (simple past tense) that she would go to law school after speaking with her father
Example: Our swim team (practice) was practicing (past progressive tense) the relay in an outdoor pool when the storm (begin) began (simple past tense)
Example: We (like) liked (simple past tense) the small Italian restaurant best because it (offer) offered (simple past tense) delicious linguine Alfredo
1) The beginning art students (decide) to make collages as their first project 2) You (wear) that shirt every time I saw you last week!
3) The speeding car (crash) _into a telephone pole last night
4) The club members (walk) _ for charity when the rain (begin)
to fall
5) Joe (forgive) his sister Carrie for telling her friends his secret
6) The girls (want) to watch the old movie again after it (end)
_
7) Daniel and Katherine (make) _ a big announcement at last Sunday's dinner; they are having a baby!
8) The Smith family's ancestors (live) _ in Virginia when the war started 9) The inn (close) _ after the Gold Rush (end) 10) The company's CEO (introduce) the keynote speaker when the microphone suddenly (make) _ a terrible noise
II - Using Irregular Verbs in Simple Past Tense
Example: I saw the moon You saw the moon We saw the moon They saw the moon
He saw the moon She saw the moon It saw the moon
Directions: Write the correct form of the irregular verb in simple past tense
Example: He _ (to drink) the coffee
He drank (to drink) the coffee
1) The moon _ (to come) out late last night
2) Jessica _ (to lose) her first tooth this morning
3) My entire family _ (to catch) the flu last winter
4) The employees (to do) a lot of work today
5) The swimmers (to hold) their breath and jumped in the water
Trang 26) The baker _ (to make) a cake for my birthday
7) They (to take) a picture of the mountain
8) The teacher _ (to teach) the students chemistry last year
9) I _(to wear) my jacket to work yesterday
10) We (to go) to the zoo last weekend
10) Tom (to write) his family a letter
12) I (to see) a movie last night
Using Irregular Verbs that Stay the Same
1) She always (put, puts, putted) lots of cream in her coffee
2) He (hit, hits, hitted) his head last night
3) His head (hurt, hurts, hurted) after he hit it
4) The children (play, plays, played) soccer last weekend
5) The arsonist (set, sets, setted) fire to several houses in our neighborhood last year
6) The door is (shut, shuts, shutted)
7) The audience (laugh, laughs, laughed) at the joke
8) My father (split, splits, splitted) lots of wood so that we could make a fire
9) The chef has (bake, bakes, baked) three wedding cakes
10) The trip is (plan, plans, planned)
11) I have never (like, likes, liked) chocolate
12) The boy (touch, touches, touched) the painting while it was still wet
13) My mother (let, lets, letted) me stay up late last night
14) The kitten (try, tries, tried) to drink the milk every time I eat cereal
15) The men (bet, bets, betted) on horses at the racetrack last Monday
16) Janet has never (spread, spreads, spreaded) butter on her bread before
17) The bubble (burst, bursts, bursted) and soap got in my eye
18) The work is (finish, finishes, finished)
19) I (visit, visits, visited) my mother last week
20) The dog (want, wants, wanted) to go outside Please let him out
Directions: Now make your own sentences using irregular verbs that stay the same
1) _
2) _
Exercise 26 (Simple Past Tense)
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in simple past or past progressive tense Note: The word 'not' is used with some of the verbs to make a negative expression
Example: The teenagers (joke) were joking (past progressive tense) around in the hallway when the principle (tell) told (simple past tense) them to go to class
Example: The sisters (plan) were planning (past progressive tense) a family reunion for spring, but their brother (do, not, want) did not want simple past tense) to attend
1) Claudia (learn) to be a chef when she (win)
a national recipe contest
2) Aaron (enjoy) _ the old car show so much, he (do, not, remember) _ that he had an appointment
3) The band members (play) a concert when Adrienne's clarinet
(squeak) _ She (feel) _ embarrassed 4) The Apollo 13 astronauts (prepare) to land on the moon when
Trang 3they (discover) a problem with the spaceship Unfortunately, they(do, not, land) _
5) Caroline (try) _ to find a job in Portland when she (hear)
about a great opportunity in Orlando
6) You (sail) _ near Barbados when your ship (strike)
a sand bar; you (do, not, like) _ waiting for help to come 7) Cody and Matthew (sit) on a rocky ledge when a snake
(crawl) out of its hole nearby They (do, not, see) _
it until it (get) _ very close to them
8) Sue (take) _ her medicine just as the doctor (order) _ when he (decide) to add another drug to her plan
9) The Johnsons (tour) the Mediterranean when they (call)
us last November They (do, not, want) _ to come home
10) I (look) _ for information about my ancestors when I (find)
that some of them (be) aboard the Mayflower
Exercise 27 (Review of simple past tense and past progressive tense)
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in simple past tense or past
progressive tense
Last week, as Karla (walk) _ (1) in her neighborhood, a puppy suddenly (appear) _(2)and (run) (3) between her legs!
This (be) (4) a surprise, and she (laugh) (5) out loud
Karla likes dogs a lot, so she (stop) (6) to pet the puppy He was very
playful While she (try) (7) to pet him, he (nip) (8) her fingers
To Karla, the puppy (look) _ (9) like a terrier mix He be) (10) wiry, white, and fuzzy He (have) (11) big ears, and he (wiggle) _ _(12) and wagging his tail without stopping
Karla (begin) _ (13) walking again, and (notice) (14) that the puppy (follow) _(15) her home He (seem) _(16) happy that he (have) _(17) a friend to walk with
The puppy stayed with Karla until they (come) _(18) to a yard where there (be) _(19) some big dogs behind a fence The dogs (bark) (20) and growling at the woman and the puppy
The puppy (stop) (21) He (tremble) _(22) and whining
He (do, not, want) (23) to go any further He (turn)
(24) around and (run) _(25) home quickly without looking back Karla hopes she will see her new friend again