Cover of the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8A - A murder mystery for the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

Cover the story and look at these verbs. Are they regular or irregular in the past simple? Write the past simple form (+) and (-) for each verb.

Answer

  • arrive - arrived - didn’t arrive
  • close - closed - didn’t close
  • come - came - didn’t come
  • hate - hated - didn’t hate
  • kill - killed - didn’t kill
  • sit - sat - didn’t sit
  • sleep - slept - didn’t sleep
  • speak - spoke - didn’t speak