| Past Tense | ||
| #1 | What is the past tense verb for begin? | began |
| #2 | What is the past tense verb for do? | did |
| #3 | What is the past tense verb for find? | found |
| #4 | What is the past tense verb for give? | gave |
| #5 | What is the past tense verb for go? | went |
| Changing an Irregular Verb to Past Tense | ||
| #1 | The Earth (gives) a big shake. | gave |
| #2 | Pictures on the wall (go) crooked. | went |
| #3 | The earthquake (takes) only a few seconds. | took |
| #4 | It (gives) us a little scare. | gave |
| #5 | The earthquake (begins) in the morning. | began |
| Choose an Irregular Verb | ||
| #1 | That island (begun, began, begin) as a volcano. | began |
| #2 | We have (took, taken, take) a trip to the island. | taken |
| #3 | Volcanoes (give, given, gived) warnings before they erupt. | give |
| #4 | The volcano has (gave, given, giving) a big blast. | given |
| #5 | People have (went, gone, going) far from the volcano. | gone |
| Changing an Irregular Verb to Past Tense | ||
| #1 | We (see) ash come out of the volcano. | saw |
| #2 | We (find) small volcanic rocks. | found |
| #3 | We (go) to the top of the mountain. | went |
| #4 | We (begin) to climb down the mountain. | began |
| #5 | The people nearby (go) away from the volcano. | went |
| Choose an Irregular Verb | ||
| #1 | We (do, did, done) a report on the earthquake. | did |
| #2 | The earthquake (begun, begin, began) early in the morning. | began |
| #3 | Fires had (gone, went, go) wild in the city. | gone |
| #4 | The earthquake (taken, tooks, took) only a few seconds. | took |
| #5 | Lava has (runs, run, ran) into the ocean. | ran |
| Final Question | |
| What makes a verb irregular? What past tense rule does it not follow? | An irregular verb that is past tense does not add -ed to the ending. |