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 |  موضوع: Irregular verbs  السبت ديسمبر 05, 2009 9:12 am | |
| Irregular verbs a. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
- Imane ……………… to find that it was already ten o’clock. (awake)
- I ……………… nervous as the final exam came closer. (become)
- He ……………… reading ‘War and Peace’ last month and he still haven’t finished it. (begin)
- A rich woman ……………… $2.000.000 for the two paintings. (bid)
- The police ……………… the criminal’s hands behind his back. (bind)
- Hicham El-Guerrouj ……………… the world record for the 1500 metres in 3.26.00 minutes. (break)
- The BBC first ……………… in 1936. (broadcast)
- They ……………… a new public library near my school. (build)
- It was a huge fire and all the furniture ………………. (burn)
b. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
- She ……………… a woollen scarf for her husband in Paris. (buy)
- The policewoman ran after the thief and ……………… him. (catch)
- I ……………… first in the latest English test. (come)
- The cat ……………… silently towards the mouse and caught it. (creep)
- He ……………… his finger with a knife. (cut)
- I woke up to find that I wasn’t really rich. I only ……………… it. (dream)
- The old lady’s loneliness ……………… her to commit suicide. (drive)
- My little brother ……………… over and hurt his knee. (fall)
- She ……………… a piece of glass in the pizza. (find)
c. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
- When the hunter fired his gun the tiger turned and ……………… (flee)
- My sister ……………… a job as a secretary in a bank. (get)
- Jalil’s uncle ……………… him a digital camera for his birthday. (give)
- My grandfather ……………… blind when he was sixty. (go)
- The young man ……………… himself in a fit of depression. (hung)
- A motorbike ……………… the old lady while she was crossing the street. (hit)
- My grandmother ……………… a sweater for the coming winter. (knit)
- She ……………… her baby gently down on its bed. (lay)
- Pablo Picasso ……………… Spain and went to live in France. (leave)
d. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
- The paintings ……………… a touch of beauty to the office. (lend)
- He ……………… his family in a road accident last year. (lose)
- The manager’s stupid remark ……………… the situation worse. (make)
- He ……………… the lawn once last month. (mow)
- He ……………… nearly $100 for these jeans. (paid)
- I ……………… in the newspaper that they found a cure for migraine. (read)
- The temperature nearly ……………… to 45° yesterday. (rise)
- The teacher ……………… we should hand in our composition on ‘air pollution’ before Friday. (say)
- He ……………… his car for nearly nothing. (sell)
e. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
- He asked a man the way to the nearest post office but he ……………… me in the wrong way. (send)
- As he was very hungry, the wife ……………… a large bowl of soup in front of her husband. (set)
- The young lady’s voice ……………… with sorrow as she described the deadly accident. (shake)
- The hunter ………………the deer in its back. (shoot)
- The little girl ……………… herself in her bedroom and refused to talk to her parents. (shut)
- Titanic ……………… to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. (sink)
- I only ……………… for a couple of hours last night. (sleep)
- ‘The murderer ……………… his hand into his pocket, took out a gun and killed the lady,’ the witness
- said. (slide)
- I ……………… two weeks in London last summer. (spend)
f. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.
- Jalil ……………… round when he heard someone call his name. (spin)
- She took a small sip of the juice and ……………… it out. (spit)
- The bad weather ……………… our holiday. (spoil)
- The terrorist kidnapped a little girl and ……………… a car. (steal)
- The epidemic ……………… the village within a few days. (sweep)
- It ……………… me five years to learn German. (take)
- My parents ……………… always to tell the truth. (teach)
- He ……………… on my toe and didn’t even say sorry
- Tolstoy ……………… ‘War and Peace’. (write)
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