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Irregular verbs practice

Practise 60 useful verbs: recall the past simple and past participle, check your answer and review a complete reference table.

Choose a learning set

Base form

be

Complete both forms, then check your answer.

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How to practise

Choose the foundation set, extension set or all verbs. Read the base form before looking below.
Type one past simple form and one past participle. The drill ignores capitalisation and surrounding spaces.
Check the feedback and use the correct forms in a sentence. After a full set, the drill cycles through the verbs again.

Recognised variants include learnt/learned, dreamt/dreamed and got/gotten as the participle of get. Got is usual in British English. Gotten is common in American English in some meanings, but expressions such as “have got a bicycle” still use got. The table notes explain special cases.

This is a recall aid. It cannot test pronunciation, tense choice in context or every meaning of a verb. In particular, the past forms of read have the same spelling as the base but sound like “red”. For a broader plan, visit Vocabulary & Grammar and apply the forms in the Writing Lab.

All 60 verbs: a reference

The drill filter changes the practice set; the full table stays visible so you can look up any form.

Base	Past simple	Past participle	Set / note
be	was / were	been	A2 · Use was or were according to the subject.
become	became	become	A2
begin	began	begun	A2
break	broke	broken	A2
bring	brought	brought	A2
build	built	built	A2
buy	bought	bought	A2
catch	caught	caught	A2
choose	chose	chosen	A2
come	came	come	A2
cost	cost	cost	A2 · This is the usual form when talking about price.
cut	cut	cut	A2
do	did	done	A2
draw	drew	drawn	A2
drink	drank	drunk	A2
drive	drove	driven	A2
eat	ate	eaten	A2
fall	fell	fallen	A2
feel	felt	felt	A2
find	found	found	A2
fly	flew	flown	A2
forget	forgot	forgotten	A2
get	got	got / gotten	A2 · Got is usual in British English. Gotten is common in American English for some meanings; have got still uses got.
give	gave	given	A2
go	went	gone	A2
have	had	had	A2
hear	heard	heard	A2
keep	kept	kept	A2
know	knew	known	A2
leave	left	left	A2
lose	lost	lost	A2
make	made	made	A2
meet	met	met	A2
put	put	put	A2
read	read	read	A2 · The past and participle are spelt read but pronounced like red.
ride	rode	ridden	A2
run	ran	run	A2
say	said	said	A2
see	saw	seen	A2
sell	sold	sold	A2
send	sent	sent	A2
sit	sat	sat	A2
sleep	slept	slept	A2
speak	spoke	spoken	A2
swim	swam	swum	A2
take	took	taken	A2
teach	taught	taught	A2
tell	told	told	A2
think	thought	thought	A2
write	wrote	written	A2
bite	bit	bitten	B1
blow	blew	blown	B1
dream	dreamt / dreamed	dreamt / dreamed	B1 · Both dreamt and dreamed are accepted.
grow	grew	grown	B1
hide	hid	hidden	B1
learn	learnt / learned	learnt / learned	B1 · Both learnt and learned are accepted.
lend	lent	lent	B1
rise	rose	risen	B1
throw	threw	thrown	B1
win	won	won	B1