Grammar reference and practice 8.2

8.2 ■ Past simple affirmative: irregular verbs

■   Many verbs have irregular past simple forms, for example, have → had, know → knew, teach → taught.

Common irregular past simple verbs
become	became	know	knew
buy	bought	leave	left
catch	caught	make	made
come	came	meet	met
do	did	put	put
eat	ate	run	ran
find	found	see	saw
get	got	sing	sang
give	gave	teach	taught
go	went	think	thought
grow	grew	understand	understood
have	had	wear	wore
hear	heard	write	wrote

1Write sentences in the past simple. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

• 1My father / teach / English and Russian / when he was younger.

• 2We / buy / a new armchair / last weekend.

• 3I / wear / a beautiful green dress / at my friend's party.

• 4Jude and Max / go / to Australia / in 2013.

• 5My sister / make / a cheese and mushroom pizza / and I / eat / it.

• 6We / write / a letter / to the President of the USA / last year.

• 7My friends / give / me / a wonderful present / for my birthday.

• 8Gemma / leave / her homework / in her bag.

2Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verb in brackets. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

• 1He  (write) beautiful poems for my sister.

• 2We  (find) an expensive phone in the park.

• 3I  (have) an amazing holiday last month.

• 4Sam  (put) the book on his teacher's desk.

• 5They  (go) to the café in the morning.

• 6I  (hear) a strange noise last night.

• 7Jan  (leave) her house an hour ago.

• 8Luca  (run) in a race last weekend.