Level: intermediate
Category: grammar
Topic:simple past tense

Recognize Past Tense

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions below them

A woman walked down the street. She stopped at the gate of a large house. She saw two girls playing in the yard. One of the girls had a big red ball. She threw the ball to the other girl. The other girl caught the ball. She put the ball down and waved to the woman at the gate.

1. List all the regular past tense verbs
2. List all the irregular past tense verbs
3. Which sentence has two past tense verbs in it?

"How was your trip?", asked George. "Oh, it was fine", answered Robert. "We went to Prague, Budapest and Warsaw and it was all very interesting". "How was the food?", asked George. "Well, it was a bit strange at first but we liked it.", answered Robert. "And they gave us a lot of food".

1. Who went on a trip?
2. Based on the capitals he mentions, what countries did he visit?
3. Which is the only sentence that doesn't have the past of to be in it?

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Created:  2007-02-26
Updated:  2007-02-26

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