Regular Verbs – English Grammar Exercises for A1
Positive Online Hotel Review
You just checked out of a wonderful hotel and you want to write a positive review on a booking website to recommend it to others. Choose the correct form of the regular verb to complete your review.
1 I ______ this hotel online last month, and the process was very easy.
(a) booked
(b) book
(c) bookked
2 My family and I ______ at the hotel for three relaxing nights.
(a) stay
(b) stayed
(c) staied
3 The receptionist ______ us warmly with fresh juice when we arrived.
(a) greeting
(b) greet
(c) greeted
4 I really ______ the beautiful view of the ocean from our balcony.
(a) enjoyed
(b) enjoied
(c) enjoy
5 A helpful staff member ______ our heavy bags to our room on the second floor.
(a) carryed
(b) carried
(c) carry
6 The housekeeping team ______ our room perfectly every single morning.
(a) clean
(b) cleanned
(c) cleaned
7 I didn’t ______ to leave the hotel because it was so comfortable!
(a) want
(b) wanted
(c) wanting
8 We ______ to use the swimming pool, but we didn’t have enough time.
(a) tryed
(b) tried
(c) try
9 The hotel restaurant ______ delicious local food for dinner.
(a) served
(b) serveed
(c) serve
10 Did you ______ the free breakfast buffet? It was amazing!
(a) liked
(b) like
(c) liking
11 We ______ along the peaceful beach every evening at sunset.
(a) walkt
(b) walk
(c) walked
12 The manager ______ to help us book a cheap taxi to the airport.
(a) offered
(b) offerred
(c) offer
13 I didn’t ______ any loud noise from the street at night.
(a) noticed
(b) notice
(c) noticing
14 ______ the hotel staff answer your questions quickly? Yes, they did!
(a) Did
(b) Were
(c) Do
15 We ______ at the hotel very late at night, but the check-in was incredibly fast.
(a) arriveed
(b) arrived
(c) arrive
16 They safely ______ our bags in a special room after we checked out.
(a) stored
(b) storred
(c) store
17 The tour guide ______ a lot of exciting trips for the hotel guests.
(a) organize
(b) organizing
(c) organized
18 The hotel didn’t ______ us any extra money for the fast Wi-Fi.
(a) charge
(b) charged
(c) charges
19 We ______ with the friendly bartender for hours at the lobby bar.
(a) chated
(b) chatted
(c) chat
20 I highly recommend this place! We absolutely ______ every minute of our trip.
(a) love
(b) didn’t loved
(c) loved
ANSWER KEY & EXPLANATIONS
1 (a) booked
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “book” for a completed past action.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) is present tense. (c) incorrectly doubles the ‘k’ (ck or double k is not needed here).
2 (b) stayed
- Why it is correct: “Stay” ends in a vowel + y (a+y), so we just add “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is present tense. (c) incorrectly changes ‘y’ to ‘i’ (a common mistake, but we only do this for consonant + y).
3 (c) greeted
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “greet”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is the continuous form missing a “to be” verb. (b) is present tense.
4 (a) enjoyed
- Why it is correct: Vowel + y (o+y), so we just add “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) incorrectly changes ‘y’ to ‘i’. (c) is present tense.
5 (b) carried
- Why it is correct: “Carry” ends in a consonant + y (r+y). We change ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) forgets the “y to i” rule, which is a classic A1 mistake. (c) is present tense.
6 (c) cleaned
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “clean”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is present tense. (b) incorrectly doubles the ‘n’ (we do not double the consonant if there are two vowels before it, like ‘ea’).
7 (a) want
- 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: (b) is the “double past” mistake (didn’t + wanted), the most common error for beginners. (c) is the continuous form.
8 (b) tried
- Why it is correct: Consonant + y (r+y) changes to ‘i’ + “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) forgets the spelling rule. (c) is present tense.
9 (a) served
- Why it is correct: “Serve” ends in ‘e’, so we only add ‘d’.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) adds a full “-ed”, creating a double ‘e’ error. (c) is present tense.
10 (b) like
- Why it is correct: In a question starting with “Did”, the main verb must be in its base form.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) uses the past form after “Did” (a double past error). (c) is the continuous form.
11 (c) walked
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “walk”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) spells the word exactly how it sounds (with a ‘t’), which is a common phonetic spelling error. (b) is present tense.
12 (a) offered
- Why it is correct: Adds “-ed” to the base verb “offer”.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) incorrectly doubles the ‘r’ (the stress is on the first syllable: OF-fer, so we don’t double the final consonant). (c) is present tense.
13 (b) notice
- Why it is correct: After “didn’t”, always use the base verb.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is the common “double past” mistake. (c) is the continuous form.
14 (a) Did
- Why it is correct: “Did” is the correct auxiliary verb to form a Past Simple question.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) “Were” is a common mistake; learners confuse the “to be” verb with the “do” auxiliary. We cannot use “were” with a main verb like “answer”. (c) is present tense.
15 (b) arrived
- Why it is correct: “Arrive” ends in ‘e’, so we add ‘d’.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) creates a spelling error by adding an extra ‘e’. (c) is present tense.
16 (a) stored
- Why it is correct: “Store” ends in ‘e’, so just add ‘d’.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) incorrectly doubles the ‘r’. (c) is present tense.
17 (c) organized
- Why it is correct: “Organize” ends in ‘e’, so we add ‘d’.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is present tense. (b) is the continuous form.
18 (a) charge
- Why it is correct: After “didn’t”, we use the base verb.
- Why the others are wrong: (b) is the “double past” error. (c) is third-person present tense.
19 (b) chatted
- Why it is correct: “Chat” is a short CVC (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) verb. We must double the final consonant (‘t’) before adding “-ed”.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) forgets to double the ‘t’ (a very common mistake). (c) is present tense.
20 (c) loved
- Why it is correct: “Love” ends in ‘e’, so we add ‘d’.
- Why the others are wrong: (a) is present tense. (b) is a structural error mixing a negative auxiliary with a past tense verb.
GRAMMAR POINTS TO REMEMBER
When you write a review about a hotel, a restaurant, or a product you already used, you need to use the Past Simple tense. This tells the reader that your stay is completely finished.
- Regular Verb Spelling Rules:
- General Rule: Add -ed (book → booked, clean → cleaned).
- Ends in -e: Add -d (serve → served, arrive → arrived).
- Ends in Consonant + y: Change ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add -ed (carry → carried).
- Ends in Vowel + y: Just add -ed (stay → stayed, enjoy → enjoyed).
- Short CVC Words: Double the last consonant (chat → chatted).
- The “Base Verb” Rule (Crucial for A1): If you use didn’t (to say something didn’t happen) or Did (to ask a question), the action verb MUST go back to its original base form! Do not add “-ed”.
- Correct: I didn’t want to leave. / Did you like it?
- Wrong: I didn’t wanted to leave. / Did you liked it?