Engelsk grammatik: Past tense verbs

1. Find the verbs in the text. Put one line under the regular verbs and two lines under

the irregular verbs.

Yesterday I made hamburgers for lunch. It was really easy. I bought some ground

beef, mixed it with eggs and bread crumbs and formed it into hamburgers. Then I

baked them in the oven. I ate three hamburgers. Delicious!

2. How do we form the past tense of regular verbs?

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-d or ed

3. Write the three forms of the four irregular verbs you found in the text.

Makes

Made

Making

Was

Is

Were

Buy

Bought

Buying

Eat

Ate

Eating

4. The verb to be (at være) has a special pattern. In the past tense there are two forms:

was and were. Put was and were in the right places below:

we are

I am

you are

you are

he/she/it is

they are

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5. Fill in the blanks.

everything we needed

(dækkede) the table. When our mum came

(spiste) a spoonful, then she took

(smagte) it again and asked

“Sure” we said

(kom) in she

(tog) a drink. She tasted

(spurgte) “Did you check the recipe?”

(sagde), but when we looked

(kiggede) again we

(så) that it said 1 teaspoon of salt, not tablespoon which we had read!