22
Name
Wa r m U p
Date
Past Tense Irregular Verbs
Some verbs are irregular. Most irregular verbs
change when the past tense is formed.
I see the ball.
He will get the ball.
I drive the golf cart.
I saw the ball.
I drove the golf cart.
He got the ball.
Circle the verb in each sentence.
Write the past tense of the circled verb. Use the word bank.
1. She will eat the cookies.
___________________________________________
2. They hide from their friend.
___________________________________________
3. I know the answer to the question. ___________________________________________
4. I run fast. ___________________________________________
5. I ride my bike to school. ___________________________________________
6. My brother will do me a favor.
___________________________________________
Warm Up, Practice, Test: Language Arts • ©The Mailbox ® Books • TEC61397 • Key p. 92
Word Bank
rode
hid
ran
ate
did
knew
Name
Date
Past Tense Irregular Verbs
Practice
fall, fallled
sing, sang
ride, rode
do, did
give, gave
eat, eated
take, took
break, broke
see, saw
If the present and past tense of each verb pair are correct, circle the pair.
Connect the circled pairs to show the golf ball’s path to the hole.
fly, flew
hide, hid
begin, beginned
throw, throwed
run, ran
catch, catched
sit, sat
write, writed
keep, keeped
go, goed
speak, speaked
give, gove
go, went
drive, drived
draw, drawed
Bonus: For each verb pair that is not circled, write the correct past tense form of the verb.
Warm Up, Practice, Test: Language Arts • ©The Mailbox ® Books • TEC61397 • Key p. 92
23
Name
Date
Past Tense Irregular Verbs
Te s t
Fill in the bubble beside the correct answer.
1. What is the past tense of run?
7. What is the past tense of fall?
A runned
A falled
B ran
B fell
2. What is the past tense of ride?
8. What is the past tense of begin?
A rode
A began
B rided
B beginned
3. What is the past tense of see?
9. What is the past tense of give?
A seed
A gived
B saw
B gave
4. What is the past tense of break?
10. What is the past tense of keep?
A breaked
A keeped
B broke
B kept
5. What is the past tense of go?
11. What is the past tense of fly?
A goed
A flew
B went
B flyed
6. What is the past tense of speak?
12. What is the past tense of draw?
A spoke
A drew
B speaked
B drawed
24
Warm Up, Practice, Test: Language Arts • ©The Mailbox ® Books • TEC61397 • Key p. 92