Simple Past Tense Exercise

Use the simple past tense to talk about actions that have already finished. It doesn't matter when in the past they happened or how long they happened for.

Take a look and compare the present tense verbs with simple past tense verbs in these two sentences.

Present:
I take my young brother to the park and buy him an ice-cream. We kick around a football, laugh and talk for hours.

Past:
Yesterday, I took my young brother to the park and bought him an ice-cream. We kicked around a football, laughed and talked for hours.

Simple Past Tense Exercise:  change the verbs in brackets to the simple past. Be careful with spellings.

• 1) They all (go) ___ shopping.
• 2) I never (imagine) ____ I would see you here.
• 3) We (book) ___ two tickets for the show.
• 4) He (collect) ___ his children from school.
• 5) Were you (frighten) ___ of the dark when you were young?
• 6) Who (eat) ___ my chocolate?
• 7) I (feel) so tired that I went straight to bed.
• 8) We (grow) ___ this tree from a seed.
• 9) She (lose) ___ her way home.
• 10) He thought I (steal) his umbrella.