Irregular Past Participles

In English grammar, irregular past participles and conjugations can cause confusion for language learners. The past participle and conjugation of irregular verbs in the present perfect and past perfect tenses do not follow the standard rules and require memorization.

With these six online exercises, you can practice the most important irregular verb forms or download the worksheets as PDF.

Question 1:

She had ? (to do) her homework before going out.

1 done

2 doed

3 did

4 doned

Question 2:

He has ? (to drink) too much and now feels sick.

1 drank

2 drinked

3 drunken

4 drunk

Question 3:

She had ? (to drive) for hours before arriving at her destination.

1 drove

2 drived

3 drave

4 driven

Question 4:

I had ? (to forget) about our meeting until you reminded me.

1 forgat

2 forgot

3 forgetted

4 forgotten

Question 5:

The package has been ? (to bring) inside.

1 brang

2 bringed

3 brung

4 brought

Question 6:

I have ? (to keep) this book for a long time.

1 keeped

2 keepen

3 keept

4 kept

Question 7:

She has ? (to know) him for years.

1 knowen

2 knew

3 known

4 knowed

Question 8:

They have ? (to put) the dishes away.

1 put

2 puten

3 putted

4 putten

Question 9:

I have ? (to read) that book before.

1 readed

2 read

3 readen

4 red

Question 10:

She has ? (to see) that movie twice already.

1 saw

2 seened

3 seed

4 seen

Question 11:

They had ? (to take) the dog for a walk before it started raining.

1 takened

2 taken

3 took

4 taked

Question 12:

She had ? (to be) to that restaurant before and liked it a lot.

1 was

2 were

3 bed

4 been

Question 13:

They had ? (to go) to bed by the time I got home.

1 gone

2 wane

3 went

4 goed

Question 14:

They ? (to have) already had dinner when I arrived.

1 haven

2 had

3 haved

4 hadded

Question 15:

He had ? (to make) a lot of progress before he got stuck.

1 maked

2 maden

3 made

4 makeed

Question 16:

He had ? (to say) that he would be here by noon.

1 saided

2 said

3 saiden

4 sayed

Question 17:

I had ? (to speak) to him earlier in the day.

1 speaked

2 spoken

3 speaken

4 spoke

Question 18:

She has ? (to get) a new job.

1 get

2 gotten

3 getted

4 getten