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The key answer of exercise 3

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

Question

  1. Complete the infinitive and past forms of these irregular verbs with a, e, i, o, or u.
  2. Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs from the list.
  3. Complete the story with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

Answer

a)

  1. begin, began
  2. come, came
  3. drink, drank
  4. drive, drove
  5. give, gave
  6. know, knew
  7. put, put
  8. sit, sat
  9. swim, swam
  10. wake, woke
  11. win, won
  12. write, wrote

b)

  1. heard
  2. met
  3. thought
  4. found
  5. bought
  6. lost
  7. broke
  8. took
  9. made
  10. could

c)

  1. worked
  2. drove
  3. knew
  4. wanted
  5. watched
  6. waited
  7. saw
  8. followed
  9. was
  10. stopped
  11. opened
  12. took
  13. left
  14. had
  15. looked
  16. wasn't
  17. was