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