Irregular verbs

Irregular verbs have many different past forms. Here are some of the most common.

  • be / was were

  • buy / bought

  • do / did

  • find / found

  • eat / ate

  • get / got

  • go / went

  • have / had

  • lose / lost

  • run / ran

  • swim / swam

  • take / took

  • see / saw

  • win / won

Important!

For more regular and irregular verbs you can check this link.

Drag and drop exercise

What’s the past form of the verb you listen to? Drag and drop.

won
lost
did
went
saw
was / were
Verb Past form Verb Past form
be
lose
go
win
see
do
Writing exercise

Unscramble the verbs

Present Past Present Past
tea tea urn arn
eat ate run ran
ndfi ndfuo wsmi wams
find found swim swam
inw onw aket otok
win won take took

Complete the story with the correct form of the verb.

Hi, this is my family story. My mother and my father were(be) born in Acapulco. In 1995 my father got(get) a very good job in Mexico City and they bought(buy) a house here and moved. My brother was(be) born in Acapulco, but I was born in Mexico City. Now we live here in the city, but I love to go to Acapulco in summer and in December.