Practice Exercise: Regular & Irregular Verbs

A. Fill in each blank with the simple tense of the verbs in the brackets.
1. They ____________ in the river last evening. (swim)
2. Mr. Finch____________ his son for failing the test. (scold)
 3. She ____________ the plants yesterday. (water)
 4. The gardener ____________ a spade to dig the soil. (use)
 5. Mr. Lewis ____________ a week in Australia last month. (spend)
B. Choose the correct answer and write it on the space provided for.
 
6. The burglars ____________ the house through an open window last night.
a. enter b. enters c. entered

7. Monkeys ____________ to eat bananas.
a. love b. loves c. loved

8. The stray dog ____________ the stranger.
a. bite b. bites c. bited

9. Darren ____________ off the light and went to bed.
a. switch b. switches c. switched

10. We ____________ in a hotel when we were in Thailand.
 a. stay b. stayed c. stays
 
11. Jill ____________ very well at the concert last week.
 a. sing b. sings c. sang

12. My father ____________ in the park every evening.
a. jog b. jogs c. jogged