Irregular Past Tense Verbs

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

Pablo Picasso

Our Irregular Verbs (Thanks Bogglesworld ESL!)

Irregular Past Tense Verbs

Here are some more irregular verbs. They don't follow the pattern of adding 'ed' at the end of the verb to make the past tense. You just have to memorize the spelling of these verbs.

Verb	Past Tense
become	became
break	broke
drive	drove
fall	fell
fight	fought
fly	flew
hide	hid
hit	hit
lose	lost
put	put
speak	spoke
stand	stood
teach	taught
think	thought
win	won

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