Regular Verbs – English Grammar Exercises for A1
Confirming Information Receipt
Imagine your colleague is asking if you have seen an important email or message they sent this morning. Choose the correct form of the verb to complete each sentence and confirm that you have checked and handled the information.
1 Yes, I ______ my emails as soon as I arrived at the office today.
(a) checkked
(b) checked
(c) check
2 I ______ the important message you sent me this morning.
(a) opened
(b) openned
(c) open
3 Thank you for the update. I ______ the client five minutes ago.
(a) answering
(b) answer
(c) answered
4 I ______ to your email right after our morning meeting ended.
(a) replied
(b) replyed
(c) reply
5 Yes, I ______ at the document you shared, and it looks good.
(a) look
(b) looked
(c) looking
6 I didn’t ______ the attachment because my internet was down.
(a) downloaded
(b) downloading
(c) download
7 ______ you receive the confirmation message from the boss?
(a) Did
(b) Were
(c) Do
8 I ______ the customer’s phone number and saved it to my contacts.
(a) copyed
(b) copied
(c) copy
9 Sorry, I was in a meeting, so I ______ the manager instead of calling.
(a) text
(b) texting
(c) texted
10 I ______ the new contract to my email so you can review it too.
(a) attached
(b) attacht
(c) attach
11 Yes, I received the invoice. I ______ it to the accounting department.
(a) forward
(b) forwarded
(c) forwarding
12 We ______ on the phone for ten minutes about the new project.
(a) talked
(b) talk
(c) talking
13 I didn’t ______ to call the client back because he emailed me first.
(a) needed
(b) needs
(c) need
14 After I read your message, I ______ the weekly report immediately.
(a) finishes
(b) finished
(c) finish
15 I ______ to open the link you sent, but it showed an error.
(a) tried
(b) tryed
(c) trying
16 Did the supervisor ______ you to review the presentation slides?
(a) ask
(b) asked
(c) asking
17 I ______ a quick message to the IT team about the login problem.
(a) typed
(b) type
(c) typeed
18 I didn’t ______ my screen when the boss joined the online call.
(a) shared
(b) sharing
(c) share
19 Yes, I ______ the new password you sent me, and it works perfectly now.
(a) used
(b) use
(c) useed
20 I ______ the file on my computer desktop so I won’t lose it.
(a) didn’t saved
(b) saved
(c) save
ANSWER KEY & EXPLANATIONS
1 (b) checked
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “check” to show a completed past action.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) incorrectly doubles the ‘k’ (ck is already a double consonant sound). (c) is present tense.
2 (a) opened
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “open”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) is a common spelling mistake; we do not double the ‘n’ because the stress is on the first syllable (O-pen). (c) is present tense.
3 (c) answered
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “answer”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is the continuous form, missing a “to be” verb. (b) is present tense.
4 (a) replied
- Why it is correct: “Reply” ends in a consonant + y. We change the “y” to “i” and add “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) forgets the “y to i” spelling rule, which is a very common A1 mistake. (c) is present tense.
5 (b) looked
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “look”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is present tense. (c) is the continuous form.
6 (c) download
- Why it is correct: In a negative past simple sentence, after the auxiliary “didn’t”, we must use the base form of the verb.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is the “double past” mistake (didn’t + downloaded). (b) is the continuous form.
7 (a) Did
- Why it is correct: “Did” is the correct auxiliary verb to form a Yes/No question in the Past Simple tense.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) “Were” is a common mistake; learners confuse the “to be” verb with the “do” auxiliary. We do not use “were” with a main verb like “receive”. (c) is present tense.
8 (b) copied
- Why it is correct: “Copy” ends in consonant + y, so change “y” to “i” and add “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) forgets the spelling rule. (c) is present tense.
9 (c) texted
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “text”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is present tense. (b) is the continuous form.
10 (a) attached
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “attach”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) spells the word how it sounds (with a ‘t’), which is a common spelling mistake. (c) is present tense.
11 (b) forwarded
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “forward”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is present tense. (c) is the continuous form.
12 (a) talked
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “talk”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) is present tense. (c) is the continuous form.
13 (c) need
- Why it is correct: After “didn’t”, we use the base verb “need”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is the common “double past” mistake. (b) is third-person present tense.
14 (b) finished
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “finish”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is third-person present tense. (c) is the base present tense.
15 (a) tried
- Why it is correct: Change the “y” to “i” and add “-ed” (try → tried).
- Why the others are wrong: (b) forgets the “y to i” rule. (c) is the continuous form.
16 (a) ask
- Why it is correct: In a past simple question (Did + subject + base verb), the main verb must not have “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) uses the past form after “Did” (a double past error). (c) is the continuous form.
17 (a) typed
- Why it is correct: “Type” already ends in “e”, so we just add “d”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) is present tense. (c) incorrectly adds a full “-ed”, creating a double “e” error.
18 (c) share
- Why it is correct: After “didn’t”, use the base verb “share”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is the “double past” mistake. (b) is the continuous form.
19 (a) used
- Why it is correct: “Use” ends in “e”, so just add “d”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) is present tense. (c) creates a spelling error by adding an extra “e”.
20 (b) saved
- Why it is correct: “Save” ends in “e”, so we just add “d”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) mixes a negative auxiliary with a past verb, which is a structural error. (c) is present tense.
GRAMMAR POINTS TO REMEMBER
When a colleague asks if you received or checked something, you use the Past Simple to confirm that the action is 100% complete.
- Standard Rule: Add -ed (check → checked, answer → answered).
- Verbs ending in ‘e’: Add -d (type → typed, save → saved).
- Verbs ending in Consonant + ‘y’: Change ‘y’ to ‘i’, then add -ed (reply → replied, copy → copied).
- Answering “No” (Negatives): Always use didn’t + base verb (I didn’t download it. / I didn’t share it.).
- Asking Questions: Always use Did + subject + base verb (Did you ask? / Did you look?).