[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":338},["ShallowReactive",2],{"exercise-grammar-irregular-verbs-exercises":3,"exercise-index-for-related":233},{"slug":4,"skill":5,"topic":6,"title":7,"levels":8,"tags":11,"published":15,"updated_at":16,"is_premium":17,"meta_title":18,"meta_description":19,"rule":20,"examples":39,"exercises":55,"faq":209,"article":225},"irregular-verbs-exercises","grammar","irregular-verbs","Irregular Verbs Exercises",[9,10],"A2","B1",[12,6,13,14],"verbs","simple-past","past-participle",true,"2026-07-20",false,"Irregular Verbs Exercises — Free Online Practice with Answers | FluencyRoad","Practice English irregular verbs (past simple and past participle) with free interactive exercises, instant feedback and memory-friendly explanations.",{"heading":21,"summary":22,"points":23},"How irregular verbs work","Irregular verbs don't take -ed in the past. Each has up to three forms to learn: base (go), past simple (went), and past participle (gone).",[24,27,30,33,36],{"label":25,"text":26},"Three forms","base – past simple – past participle: see – saw – seen, take – took – taken",{"label":28,"text":29},"Same all three","some don't change at all: put – put – put, cost – cost – cost",{"label":31,"text":32},"Vowel families","patterns repeat: sing–sang–sung, ring–rang–rung, drink–drank–drunk",{"label":34,"text":35},"Past simple use","finished past actions: She went home.",{"label":37,"text":38},"Past participle use","perfect tenses and passives: She has gone. \u002F The car was stolen.",[40,43,46,49,52],{"sentence":41,"note":42},"I **saw** that film last month, but I've **seen** better ones.","saw = past simple, seen = past participle",{"sentence":44,"note":45},"He **took** the bus this morning because his car had **broken** down.","take → took; break → broken",{"sentence":47,"note":48},"She has **written** three novels and is writing a fourth.","write – wrote – written",{"sentence":50,"note":51},"The window was **broken** during the storm.","past participle in the passive",{"sentence":53,"note":54},"They **flew** to Rome and **spent** a week there.","fly → flew; spend → spent",[56,105,146,187],{"id":57,"type":58,"title":59,"instructions":60,"questions":61},"mc","multiple_choice","Choose the correct form","Select the correct verb form for each sentence.",[62,71,80,89,97],{"id":63,"prompt":64,"options":65,"answer":69,"explanation":70},"mc1","She ___ her phone at home this morning.",[66,67,68],"leaved","left","leaven",1,"'Leave' is irregular: leave – left – left.",{"id":72,"prompt":73,"options":74,"answer":78,"explanation":79},"mc2","Have you ever ___ sushi?",[75,76,77],"ate","eat","eaten",2,"After 'have', use the past participle: eat – ate – eaten.",{"id":81,"prompt":82,"options":83,"answer":87,"explanation":88},"mc3","The thief was ___ by the police two days later.",[84,85,86],"caught","catched","catch",0,"'Catch' is irregular: catch – caught – caught. The passive needs the past participle.",{"id":90,"prompt":91,"options":92,"answer":69,"explanation":96},"mc4","I ___ a strange noise in the night.",[93,94,95],"heared","heard","hear","'Hear' is irregular: hear – heard – heard (pronounced \u002Fhɜːd\u002F).",{"id":98,"prompt":99,"options":100,"answer":69,"explanation":104},"mc5","He has ___ his homework already.",[101,102,103],"did","done","doed","'Do' has different past simple and participle forms: do – did – done. After 'has', use 'done'.",{"id":106,"type":107,"title":108,"instructions":109,"questions":110},"gap","gap_fill","Type the correct irregular form","Type the past simple form of the verb in brackets.",[111,118,125,132,139],{"id":112,"prompt":113,"hint":114,"answers":115,"explanation":117},"gap1","We ___ an amazing castle on our trip.","see",[116],"saw","see – saw – seen. Past simple: saw.",{"id":119,"prompt":120,"hint":121,"answers":122,"explanation":124},"gap2","She ___ a glass of water and went back to bed.","drink",[123],"drank","drink – drank – drunk. Past simple: drank.",{"id":126,"prompt":127,"hint":128,"answers":129,"explanation":131},"gap3","My grandfather ___ me how to fish.","teach",[130],"taught","teach – taught – taught, same pattern as catch – caught.",{"id":133,"prompt":134,"hint":135,"answers":136,"explanation":138},"gap4","The concert ___ two hours ago.","begin",[137],"began","begin – began – begun. Past simple: began.",{"id":140,"prompt":141,"hint":142,"answers":143,"explanation":145},"gap5","I ___ my old bike to my neighbor for fifty dollars.","sell",[144],"sold","sell – sold – sold, same pattern as tell – told.",{"id":147,"type":147,"title":148,"instructions":149,"questions":150},"reorder","Put the words in order","Click the words in the correct order to build the sentence.",[151,160,169,178],{"id":152,"words":153,"answer":158,"explanation":159},"re1",[154,155,156,157],"found","she","on the street","a wallet","she found a wallet on the street","find – found – found. Subject + past verb + object + place.",{"id":161,"words":162,"answer":167,"explanation":168},"re2",[163,164,165,166],"has","he","his leg","broken","he has broken his leg","Present perfect needs the participle: break – broke – broken.",{"id":170,"words":171,"answer":176,"explanation":177},"re3",[172,173,174,175],"went","to bed","the children","late","the children went to bed late","go – went – gone. Past simple: went.",{"id":179,"words":180,"answer":185,"explanation":186},"re4",[181,182,183,184],"was","the letter","in 1950","written","the letter was written in 1950","Passive voice: was + past participle (write – wrote – written).",{"id":188,"type":189,"title":190,"instructions":191,"questions":192},"tf","true_false","True or false?","Decide if each statement about irregular verbs is true or false.",[193,197,201,205],{"id":194,"prompt":195,"answer":17,"explanation":196},"tf1","The past simple of 'go' is 'goed'.","False — go – went – gone. 'Goed' does not exist.",{"id":198,"prompt":199,"answer":15,"explanation":200},"tf2","'Put' has the same form in the present, past simple and past participle.","True — put – put – put. Other examples: cut, cost, hit, let.",{"id":202,"prompt":203,"answer":17,"explanation":204},"tf3","\"I have wrote a letter\" is correct.","False — after 'have' use the participle: \"I have written a letter.\" (write – wrote – written)",{"id":206,"prompt":207,"answer":15,"explanation":208},"tf4","Verbs like sing, ring and drink follow the same i–a–u vowel pattern.","True — sing–sang–sung, ring–rang–rung, drink–drank–drunk. Learning families like this speeds up memorisation.",[210,213,216,219,222],{"question":211,"answer":212},"What is an irregular verb?","An irregular verb is a verb that does not form its past simple and past participle with -ed. Each has its own forms, e.g. go – went – gone, see – saw – seen, put – put – put.",{"question":214,"answer":215},"How many irregular verbs are there in English?","Around 200 exist, but roughly 50 account for most everyday usage — verbs like be, have, do, go, get, make, take, come, see and know. Master those first.",{"question":217,"answer":218},"What is the fastest way to memorise irregular verbs?","Group them by sound pattern (sing–sang–sung with ring and drink; buy–bought with think and catch), practice them in full sentences rather than lists, and review with spaced repetition. Frequent exposure through reading also fixes them naturally.",{"question":220,"answer":221},"What is the difference between the past simple and the past participle?","The past simple stands alone as a finished-past verb (She went home). The past participle never stands alone — it follows have\u002Fhas\u002Fhad in perfect tenses (She has gone) or be in passives (The car was stolen).",{"question":223,"answer":224},"Do irregular verbs also have irregular -ing forms?","No — the -ing form is always regular for every English verb (go → going, swim → swimming). Only the past simple and past participle are irregular.",{"heading":226,"paragraphs":227},"Irregular verbs explained in depth",[228,229,230,231,232],"Irregular verbs are leftovers from Old English, when vowel changes — not endings — marked the past tense. The most frequent verbs in the language resisted regularisation precisely because people used them constantly, which explains an apparent paradox: the most common English verbs are the least predictable ones. Any conversation will force you through go\u002Fwent, get\u002Fgot, make\u002Fmade and take\u002Ftook within minutes.","Each irregular verb has up to three forms to learn. The base form appears in the present, in infinitives and after modals. The past simple carries finished-past meaning on its own. The past participle only ever works with a helper: after have\u002Fhas\u002Fhad in perfect tenses, or after be in the passive voice. Learners who mix up 'saw' and 'seen' — saying 'I have saw' or 'I seen it' — are mixing these two jobs.","Rather than memorising an alphabetical table, exploit the hidden structure. One family keeps a single form throughout (put, cut, cost, hit, let). Another changes only once (buy–bought–bought, teach–taught–taught, sell–sold–sold). The trickiest family changes twice, often with an i–a–u vowel ladder (begin–began–begun, swim–swam–swum) or an -en participle (speak–spoke–spoken, write–wrote–written, break–broke–broken). Studying one family at a time roughly halves the effort.","Pronunciation deserves attention too, because spelling misleads: 'read' keeps its spelling but shifts its vowel (\u002Friːd\u002F → \u002Fred\u002F), 'heard' rhymes with 'bird', and 'said' rhymes with 'red'. Saying the three forms aloud as a rhythm — sing, sang, sung — builds the sound memory that spelling drills miss.","The exercises above mix past simple and past participle uses deliberately, because real English constantly switches between them: you narrate with the past simple, then jump to the present perfect for relevance, then to the passive for events. If you can choose the right form in mixed contexts, the verbs are truly yours.",[234,246,257,260,270,277,285,292,299,307,316,323,331],{"slug":235,"skill":5,"topic":236,"title":237,"levels":238,"tags":239,"meta_description":244,"updated_at":16,"question_count":245},"future-tenses-exercises","future-tenses","Future Tenses Exercises",[9,10],[240,241,242,243],"tenses","future","will","going-to","Practice English future forms (will, going to, present continuous, present simple) with free interactive exercises, instant feedback and explanations.",18,{"slug":247,"skill":5,"topic":248,"title":249,"levels":250,"tags":252,"meta_description":256,"updated_at":16,"question_count":245},"gerund-infinitive-exercises","gerund-infinitive","Gerund and Infinitive Exercises",[10,251],"B2",[253,254,255],"gerund","infinitive","verb-patterns","Practice gerunds and infinitives (enjoy doing vs decide to do) with free interactive exercises, instant feedback and explanations of every verb 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