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Topic: irregular verb forms
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Quiz topic: Irregular past tense
1. I couldn’t sleep last night, I ___________ up around 4 and couldn’t get back to sleep
again until 6.
a) woke
b) wake
c) waken
d) waked
2. Fearless aviator Wiley Post ___________ around the world in the first ever solo
around-the-world flight in 1933.
a) flied
b) flown
c) flyed
d) flew
3. I ___________ you said it was going to be a nice day?
a) think
b) thought
c) thinked
d) taught
4. They ___________ all around Greece last summer.
a) driven
b) drive
c) drove
d) drived
5. Who ___________ my fish and chips? I was going to have that for my dinner
tonight!
a) ate
b) eat
c) eight
d) eaten
6. She _____________ English at a university in Canada
a) teach
b) teached
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c) taught
d) taughted
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Quiz topic: Irregular past tense
Answers
1. I feel awful! I couldn’t sleep last night, I ___________ up around 4 and couldn’t get
back to sleep again until 6.
a) woke
b) wake
c) waken
d) waked
a) The past of the verb ‘wake’ is ‘woke’.
b) ‘Wake’ is the infinitive and present form.
c) ‘Waken’ does not exist.
d) What’s the irregular past of this verb?
2. Fearless aviator Wiley Post ___________ around the world in the first ever solo
around-the-world flight in 1933.
a) flied
b) flown
c) flyed
d) flew
a) What’s the irregular past of this verb?
b) This is the past participle, what’s the past form?
c) What’s the irregular past of this verb?
d) The past of the verb ‘fly’ is ‘flew’.
3. I ___________ you said it was going to be a nice day?
a) think
b) thought
c) thinked
d) taught
a) Think is the infinitive and present form.
b) The past form of the verb ‘think’ is ‘thought’.
c) What’s the irregular past of this verb?
d) ‘Taught’ is the past form of the verb ‘teach’.
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4. They ___________ all the around Greece last summer.
a) driven
b) drive
c) drove
d) drived
a) ‘Driven’ is the past participle, what’s the past form?
b) ‘Drive’ is the infinitive and present form.
c) The past form of the verb ‘drive’ is ‘drove’.
d) What’s the irregular past of this verb?
5. Who ___________ my fish and chips? I was going to have that for my dinner
tonight!
a) ate
b) eat
c) eight
d) eaten
a) ‘Ate’ is the past form of the verb ‘eat’.
b) ‘Eat’ is the infinitive and present form.
c) ‘Eight’ is pronounced like the past of the verb ‘eat’ but is not the correct spelling.
d) ‘Eaten’ is the past participle, what’s the past form?
6. She _____________ English at a university in Canada
a) teach
b) teached
c) taught
d) taughted
a) ‘Teach’ is the infinitive and present form.
b) What’s the irregular past of this verb?
c) ‘taught’ is the past form of the verb ‘teach’.
d) What’s the irregular past of this verb?
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