Regular And Irregular Verbs Exercises

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Exercise 3

Complete the text with these verbs in past simple.

ask arrive fly go pay say stop take tell think want

Past simple regular

Regular and Irregular Verbs Exercises With Answers Regular and Irregular Verbs Exercises With Answers – Verb is a word that explains what the subject is doing in a sentence. In English, there are several types of verbs, one of them is Regular Verb and Irregular Verb which are classified according to their characteristics. Regular & Irregular Verbs Gapfill Exercise. Complete each sentence using the verbs in the brackets. Think carefully about regular and irregular verbs! My sister (buy) a beautiful leather jacket yesterday. It was so expensive. Can you tell me if the 6.43 train to Chicago (leave) on time or not? Irregular verbs 11-20: write; Common irregular verbs 21-30; Verbs 21-30: drag and drop; Irregular verbs 21-30: write; Common irregular verbs 31-40; Verbs 31-40: drag and drop; Irregular verbs 31-40: write; Quiz 1: irregular verbs 01-15; Quiz 2: irregular verbs 16-30; Quiz 3: irregular verbs 31-45; Quiz 4: irregular verbs 46-60; 90 irregular.


We often add -ed to verbs (regular verbs) to make the past simple.

The Farlex Grammar Book English Grammar Parts of Speech Verbs Regular and Irregular Verbs Regular and Irregular Verbs Definition All English verbs are either regular or irregular, depending on how they are conjugated. The majority are regular verbs, which means that “-d” or “-ed” is added to their base form (the infinitive of the verb.

  • We often watch a film on Saturday. ⇒ We watched a film last Saturday.
  • I live in Barcelona. ⇒ I lived in Barcelona in the 90s.

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Spelling of regular verbs


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When do we double the consonant?


We double the consonant when the verb ends in consonant + vowel + consonant. This is always true when the verb is one syllable.

  • stop ⇒ stopped, plan ⇒ planned, shop ⇒ shopped, rob ⇒ robbed.

When the verb is two syllables, we only double the consonant when the STRESS is in the last syllable.

  • reFER ⇒ referred, preFER ⇒ preferred, reGRET ⇒ regretted

But we do NOT double the consonant when the STRESS is NOT in the last syllable.

Regular
  • VIsit ⇒ visited, ANswer ⇒ answered.

Past simple irregular


Some verb are irregular and they don’t add -ed to make the past simple. Some very common irregular verbs are:

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Past simple – use

Past finished actions or states

And

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We can use the past simple to talk about past finished actions or states. We know and we often mention when these actions happened with a past time expression: yesterday, yesterday morning, last night, last week, two days ago, five years ago, etc.

  • Jessica called me last night.
  • Rachel was a very good writer.

Past repeated actions

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We can use the past simple to talk about habits or repeated actions that happened in the past but don’t happen in the present. We often use adverbs or expressions of frequency (often, always, every day, etc.).

  • When I was a child, I ate sweets every day.
  • In school, I always played football during break time.