PAST TIME FORMS

190. Watch your speech to see if you use an incorrect verb form for the past time form. Study the table of irregular verbs and refer to it frequently. We often make the mistake of forming the past time form by adding ed when properly it is formed irregularly. For example: we often say drawed for drew, throwed for threw, etc.

Exercise 3

Draw a line under the correct form in the following:

  1. He grew—growed rapidly.
  2. He knew—knowed better.
  3. He catched—caught the ball.
  4. He drew—drawed the water.
  5. They threw—throwed him over.
  6. I drinked—drank the water.
  7. I climbed—clumb the tree.
  8. I seed—saw him do it.
  9. She teached—taught school.