Regular Verbs – English Grammar Exercises for A1
End-of-Day Work Report
You are reporting to your manager at the end of the workday. Choose the correct form of the verb to complete each sentence and confirm the tasks you have finished.
1 I ______ all of my assigned work at 5:00 PM today.
(a) finish
(b) finishs
(c) finished
2 I ______ hard all morning to complete the sales report.
(a) worked
(b) work
(c) workked
3 I ______ the new client on the phone to confirm our meeting.
(a) calld
(b) called
(c) call
4 I read and ______ all the important emails in my inbox.
(a) answering
(b) answer
(c) answered
5 I ______ my desk and organized my papers before leaving.
(a) clean
(b) cleaned
(c) cleanned
6 I didn’t ______ the documents because the printer was broken.
(a) print
(b) printed
(c) printing
7 ______ you check the office mailbox this afternoon?
(a) Do
(b) Did
(c) Were
8 I ______ the meeting room for tomorrow’s presentation.
(a) prepard
(b) prepare
(c) prepared
9 I ______ the old files into three different folders.
(a) organized
(b) organize
(c) organizing
10 I ______ my teammate with her project because she was busy.
(a) helpt
(b) help
(c) helped
11 The manager ______ me to send the weekly update to the team.
(a) askt
(b) asked
(c) ask
12 I ______ to fix the computer, but it still doesn’t work.
(a) tryed
(b) tried
(c) try
13 We ______ a new software system today to track our sales.
(a) used
(b) useed
(c) use
14 I didn’t ______ to the client’s office because it was raining heavily.
(a) walked
(b) walk
(c) walking
15 I ______ the design of the presentation, so it looks great now.
(a) change
(b) changeed
(c) changed
16 The team meeting ______ at exactly 2:00 PM.
(a) starting
(b) started
(c) start
17 I ______ the heavy boxes of printer paper to the storage room.
(a) carryed
(b) carry
(c) carried
18 I ______ chatting with my coworkers and focused completely on my tasks.
(a) stoped
(b) stopped
(c) stop
19 ______ the customer agree to sign the new contract?
(a) Did
(b) Do
(c) Was
20 I ______ the office door and turned off the lights before I left.
(a) didn’t closed
(b) close
(c) closed
ANSWER KEY & EXPLANATIONS
1 (c) finished
- Why it is correct: “Finished” is the regular past tense of “finish”. The context is an action completed today at 5:00 PM.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is the present tense (common mistake). (b) is grammatically incorrect spelling for present tense.
2 (a) worked
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “work” for a completed past action.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) is the present tense base verb. (c) incorrectly doubles the ‘k’ (structural error).
3 (b) called
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “call”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) misses the ‘e’ before the ‘d’, a common spelling mistake. (c) is present tense.
4 (c) answered
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “answer”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is the continuous form (-ing) which needs a “to be” verb. (b) is present tense.
5 (b) cleaned
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “clean”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is present tense. (c) incorrectly doubles the ‘n’.
6 (a) print
- Why it is correct: After the negative auxiliary “didn’t”, we must use the base form of the verb.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) is a common “double past” mistake (didn’t + printed). (c) uses the continuous form incorrectly.
7 (b) Did
- Why it is correct: “Did” is the correct auxiliary verb to form a Yes/No question in the Past Simple.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is present tense. (c) uses the “to be” verb, which cannot be used with the main verb “check” in this context.
8 (c) prepared
- Why it is correct: For verbs already ending in “e”, we just add “d”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is a spelling error, dropping the ‘e’ entirely. (b) is present tense.
9 (a) organized
- Why it is correct: Ends in “e”, so we just add “d”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) is present tense. (c) is the continuous form.
10 (c) helped
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “help”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) spells the word exactly how it sounds (with a ‘t’), which is a very common A1 spelling mistake. (b) is present tense.
11 (b) asked
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “ask”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is a spelling mistake based on pronunciation (sounds like a ‘t’). (c) is present tense.
12 (b) tried
- Why it is correct: For verbs ending in a consonant + y (try), change “y” to “i” and add “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) forgets the “y to i” rule, a common mistake. (c) is present tense.
13 (a) used
- Why it is correct: “Use” ends in “e”, so we just add “d”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) adds a full “-ed”, creating a spelling error. (c) is present tense.
14 (b) walk
- Why it is correct: After “didn’t”, always use the base form of the verb.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is the common “double past” mistake (didn’t walked). (c) is the continuous form.
15 (c) changed
- Why it is correct: “Change” ends in “e”, so just add “d”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is present tense. (b) adds a full “-ed”, creating a double ‘e’ error.
16 (b) started
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “start”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is the continuous form. (c) is present tense.
17 (c) carried
- Why it is correct: Consonant + y (carry) changes to “i” + “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) forgets the spelling rule. (b) is present tense.
18 (b) stopped
- Why it is correct: One-syllable verb ending in Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC). We must double the final consonant (‘p’) before adding “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) forgets to double the ‘p’, a common mistake. (c) is present tense.
19 (a) Did
- Why it is correct: Auxiliary verb for Past Simple questions.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) is present tense. (c) uses the “to be” verb instead of the “do” auxiliary.
20 (c) closed
- Why it is correct: “Close” ends in “e”, so we add “d”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) mixes a negative auxiliary with a past verb, which is structurally wrong. (b) is present tense.
GRAMMAR POINTS TO REMEMBER
- General Rule: Add -ed to the base verb (work → worked, call → called).
- Verbs ending in ‘e’: Just add -d (prepare → prepared, close → closed).
- Verbs ending in Consonant + ‘y’: Change ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add -ed (try → tried, carry → carried).
- CVC Rule (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant): Double the last consonant and add -ed (stop → stopped).
- Negatives: Use didn’t + base verb (I didn’t finish. NOT I didn’t finished).
- Questions: Use Did + subject + base verb (Did you work? NOT Did you worked?).