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REFERENCE CHART: IRREGULAR VERBS

SIMPLE FORM                                  PAST                                       PAST PARTICIPLE

be                                                        was, were                                 been

become                                                became                                    become

begin                                                    began                                       begun

blow                                                     blew                                         blown

break                                                   broke                                       broken

bring                                                     brought                         brought

build                                                     built                                          built

buy                                                       bought                                      bought

catch                                                    caught                                      caught

choose                                                 chose                                       chosen

come                                                    came                                        come

cut                                                        cut                                            cut

do                                                        did                                           done

draw                                                    drew                                        drawn

drink                                                    drank                                       drunk

drive                                                     drove                                       driven

eat                                                        ate                                            eaten

fall                                                        fell                                            fallen

feed                                                      fed                                           fed

feel                                                       felt                                            felt

fight                                                      fought                                       fought

find                                                       found                                        found

fly                                                         flew                                          flown

forget                                                   forgot                                       forgotten

forgive                                                  forgave                         forgiven

freeze                                                   froze                                         frozen

get                                                        got                                           gotten

give                                                      gave                                         given

go                                                        went                                         gone

grow                                                    grew                                         grown

have                                                     had                                           had

hear                                                      heard                                        heard

hide                                                      hid                                            hidden

hold                                                      held                                          held

hurt                                                      hurt                                          hurt

keep                                                     kept                                         kept

know                                                    knew                                        known

lay (to place)                                        laid                                           laid

lead                                                      led                                            led

leave                                                    left                                            left

let                                                         let                                             let

lie (to recline)                                        lay                                            lain

lose                                                      lost                                           lost

make                                                    made                                        made

meet                                                     met                                           met

pay                                                       paid                                          paid

quit                                                       quit                                           quit

read                                                     read                                         read

ride                                                      rode                                         ridden

rise                                                       rose                                          risen

run                                                       ran                                           run

say                                                       said                                          said

see                                                       saw                                          seen

seek                                                     sought                                      sought

sell                                                       sold                                          sold

send                                                     sent                                          sent

shake                                                   shook                                       shaken

shine                                                     shone                                       shone

sing                                                      sang                                         sung

sit                                                         sat                                            sat

sleep                                                    slept                                         slept

speak                                                   spoke                                       spoken

spend                                                   spent                                        spent

spring                                                   sprang                                      sprung

stand                                                    stood                                        stood

steal                                                     stole                                         stolen

swim                                                    swam                                       swum

take                                                      took                                         taken

teach                                                    taught                                       taught

tear                                                      tore                                          torn

tell                                                        told                                          told

think                                                     thought                         thought

throw                                                   thrown                                      thrown

understand                                            understood                               understood

wake                                                    woke (waked)                          woken (waken)

wear                                                     wore                                        worn

win                                                       won                                          won     

write                                                     wrote                                       written

I have                                                   I had                                        I had

He has                                                  He had                                     He had

EXERCISE:     Choose the correct form of the verb.

1. You have (drank, drunk, drink) too much wine.
2. Cary (speak, spoken, spoke) to Herman about the trip to Disney World.
3. I still have not (seen, see, saw) Tootsie.
4. Pepe (swam, swum, swim) 500 meters.
5. Ivonne (keep, kept) all the poems; they were (hide, hid, hidden) in a safe place.
6. I will never (forgive, forgave, forgiven) you for what you (done, do, did) to me at the party.
7. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (write, wrote, written) a true classic: One Hundred Years of Solitude.
8. Have you (met, meet) the President of the United States?
9. Marta had already (left, leave) when we (come, came) to ask her to lunch.
10. I (known, know, knew) she wishes she had (be, been, was) here.
11. Yvonne (draw, drew, drawn) a great picture of Al Pacino.
12. Javier (threw, throw, thrown) the ball, (break, broken, broke) the old lady’s window and (run, ran) quickly down the street.
13. We have always (eat, eaten, ate) at that restaurant.
14. Bill always (told, tells) that he has  (taught, teach) here for 25 years.
15. All the employees complained because they (felt, feel) the management had not (paid, pay) them enough for their efforts.
16.  The cruise (gave, given, give) Cary and Ivonne a chance to relax.
17. People  (say, said) that in Cuba one (have, has, had) to stand in line for days to get a pair of shoes.
18. The salesman (shaken, shook, shake) my hand and (bring, brought) a vacuum cleaner into my house.
19. He has (stand, stood) the overprotection of his parents too long.
20. Melissa has (grown, grow, grew) more than Gregory since last year.

REVISED BY: Marcos J. Rodriguez 6/28/02

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