With these irregular verb exercises with answers, you’ll practise verb changes in the present and past simple forms. We also provide a pdf worksheet for additional practice. The answers to the worksheet are included on this page.

Present and past simple forms of irregular verbs

Write the present simple and past simple forms of the irregular verbs in the table.

Irregular verb Subject pronouns Present simple forms Past simple forms
go I / You (singular)

go

went

He / She / It

goes

went

We / You / They

go

went

know I / You (singular)

know

knew

He / She / It

knows

knew

We / You / They

know

knew

come I / You (singular)

come

came

He / She / It

comes

came

We / You / They

come

came

take I / You (singular)

take

took

He / She / It

takes

took

We / You / They

take

took

eat I / You (singular)

eat

ate

He / She / It

eats

ate

We / You / They

eat

ate

Irregular verb sentence completion exercises

Write the correct form of each irregular verb to complete the sentence. Pay attention to the time expression to help you decide which verb tense to use.

She (go) to school every day.

goes

We (see) a shooting star last night.

saw

They (take) the wrong train yesterday.

took

I usually (eat) lunch at 12:30.

eat

She (give) me a kiss when we first met.

gave

My dad always (drive) me to school on Fridays.

drives

We (come) back from Paris last Monday.

came

The baby often (wake) up at 3 a.m.

wakes

She (find) an old coin in the garden a few days ago.

found

Multiple-choice questions

Choose the correct past simple form of the verb in parentheses.

11. He _____ (begin) the project last month.




12. They _____ (build) the house in 2010.




13. I _____ (feel) tired after the long journey.




14. She _____ (leave) her keys on the bus.




15. We _____ (meet) them at the park last weekend.




16. I _____ (break) my phone yesterday.




17. She _____ (buy) a new car last week.




18. He _____ (hear) a strange noise last night.




19. The cat _____ (hide) under the sofa.




20. He _____ (choose) the blue one.




Printable irregular verb exercises ESL students
Irregular verbs - PDF worksheet
Click here to check the answers to the worksheet
Regular verbs Irregular verbs
play → played bring → brought
start → started sleep → slept
laugh → laughed write → wrote
climb → climbed leave → left
watch → watched hide → hid
cry → cried fly → flew
walk → walked drink → drank
look → looked eat → ate
enjoy → enjoyed swim → swam
smile → smiled give → gave
visit → visited take → took
clean → cleaned go → went
dream → dreamed / dreamtteach → taught
cook → cooked come → came
kick → kicked
help → helped
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