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Exercise 24 (Simple Past Tense)
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.
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.
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