irreguler verbs tenses

Irregular verbs

a. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.

1. Imane ……………… to find that it was already ten o’clock. (awake)
2. I ……………… nervous as the final exam came closer. (become)
3. He ……………… reading ‘War and Peace’ last month and he still haven’t finished it. (begin)
4. A rich woman ……………… $2.000.000 for the two paintings. (bid)
5. The police ……………… the criminal’s hands behind his back. (bind)
6. Hicham El-Guerrouj ……………… the world record for the 1500 metres in 3.26.00 minutes. (break)
7. The BBC first ……………… in 1936. (broadcast)
8. They ……………… a new public library near my school. (build)
9. It was a huge fire and all the furniture ………………. (burn)

b. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.

1. She ……………… a woollen scarf for her husband in Paris. (buy)
2. The policewoman ran after the thief and ……………… him. (catch)
3. I ……………… first in the latest English test. (come)
4. The cat ……………… silently towards the mouse and caught it. (creep)
5. He ……………… his finger with a knife. (cut)
6. I woke up to find that I wasn’t really rich. I only ……………… it. (dream)
7. The old lady’s loneliness ……………… her to commit suicide. (drive)
8. My little brother ……………… over and hurt his knee. (fall)
9. She ……………… a piece of glass in the pizza. (find)

c. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.

1. When the hunter fired his gun the tiger turned and ……………… (flee)
2. My sister ……………… a job as a secretary in a bank. (get)
3. Jalil’s uncle ……………… him a digital camera for his birthday. (give)
4. My grandfather ……………… blind when he was sixty. (go)
5. The young man ……………… himself in a fit of depression. (hung)
6. A motorbike ……………… the old lady while she was crossing the street. (hit)
7. My grandmother ……………… a sweater for the coming winter. (knit)
8. She ……………… her baby gently down on its bed. (lay)
9. Pablo Picasso ……………… Spain and went to live in France. (leave)

d. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.

1. The paintings ……………… a touch of beauty to the office. (lend)
2. He ……………… his family in a road accident last year. (lose)
3. The manager’s stupid remark ……………… the situation worse. (make)
4. He ……………… the lawn once last month. (mow)
5. He ……………… nearly $100 for these jeans. (paid)
6. I ……………… in the newspaper that they found a cure for migraine. (read)
7. The temperature nearly ……………… to 45° yesterday. (rise)
8. The teacher ……………… we should hand in our composition on ‘air pollution’ before Friday. (say)
9. He ……………… his car for nearly nothing. (sell)

e. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.

1. He asked a man the way to the nearest post office but he ……………… me in the wrong way. (send)
2. As he was very hungry, the wife ……………… a large bowl of soup in front of her husband. (set)
3. The young lady’s voice ……………… with sorrow as she described the deadly accident. (shake)
4. The hunter ………………the deer in its back. (shoot)
5. The little girl ……………… herself in her bedroom and refused to talk to her parents. (shut)
6. Titanic ……………… to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. (sink)
7. I only ……………… for a couple of hours last night. (sleep)
8. ‘The murderer ……………… his hand into his pocket, took out a gun and killed the lady,’ the witness
9. said. (slide)
10. I ……………… two weeks in London last summer. (spend)

f. Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past.

1. Jalil ……………… round when he heard someone call his name. (spin)
2. She took a small sip of the juice and ……………… it out. (spit)
3. The bad weather ……………… our holiday. (spoil)
4. The terrorist kidnapped a little girl and ……………… a car. (steal)
5. The epidemic ……………… the village within a few days. (sweep)
6. It ……………… me five years to learn German. (take)
7. My parents ……………… always to tell the truth. (teach)
8. He ……………… on my toe and didn’t even say sorry
9. Tolstoy ……………… ‘War and Peace’. (write)

The Passive voice ,rules & exersices

The Passive

Remember these!
Present tenses am/is/are + past participle am/is/are + being + past participle have/has been + past participle Past tenses was/were + past participle was/were + being + past participle had been + past participle	Future tenses will be + past participle will have + been + past participle is/are going to be + past participle Present/Future modals modal + be + past participle Past modals modal + have been + past participle

a. Turn these sentences into the passive.

1. My uncle manages a huge firm.
2. My children like toys very much.
3. My little sister sometimes asks stupid questions.
4. Those people are talking about politics.
5. They are writing the test exercises at the present time.
6. Kamal is carrying a heavy box.
7. I have sent a parcel to the USA.
8. Jalil has received two letters.
9. Willy has bought a limousine.

b. Turn these sentences into the passive.

1. Ziryab composed some beautiful love songs.
2. Hind lost her family in a road accident.
3. The customer ordered a green salad and a cheese sandwich.
4. I was cleaning my room when the light went out.
5. My wife was making a pizza when I arrived home.
6. The teacher was explaining the irregular verbs to the students.
7. She had taken all my books.
8. I replied the teacher’s question politely.
9. Pablo Picasso had painted Guernica in 1937.

c. Turn these sentences into the passive.

1. Jalil and Jamal will finish the job tomorrow.
2. The dog will eat the bone.
3. They will move before June.
4. He will have begun the job by next week.
5. Man will have set colonies in the moon by the year 2050.
6. I will have completed his high studies by the end of next year.
7. They are going to have some Chinese food for dinner.
8. Jalil is going to offer me a watch for my coming birthday.
9. She is going to invite her friends for lunch next weekend.

d. Turn these sentences into the passive.

1. Jalil can speak two foreign languages.
2. The firm may give a high rise to the workers.
3. The lazy students might get weak marks in the test.
4. Jamal should learn the irregular verbs.
5. Drivers ought to respect the traffic law.
6. Obese people had better practise sport everyday.
7. Moroccan people must apply for visas to travel to the UK.
8. The prisoners have to clean their cells every weekend.

e. Turn these sentences into the passive.

1. My little brother should have broken the vase.
2. He should have got a bad mark in the French test.
3. Students ought to have learned the irregular verbs by heart.
4. The bank may have received my fax.
5. The boss may have offered Jamal a new duty in the company.
6. She might have done the homework correctly.
7. They might have had dinner in a Chinese diner.
8. The ministers of foreign affairs might have talked about the world economic crisis.