Irregular Verbs Exercise 3 — Advanced English Questions with Deep Grammar Explanation & Verb Forms
This Irregular Verb Exercise helps you master English verb forms (V1, V2, V3) through real grammar situations including passive voice, causatives, modals, future forms, conditional sentences, infinitives, –ing forms, perfect tenses, and more.
Each question leaves one irregular verb missing, and you must choose the correct form based on context.
Every question includes:
- The verb + POS
- Base, past, past participle forms
- Easy meanings
- Deep explanations for why the correct answer works
- And why each wrong answer is incorrect
Perfect for exam prep, speaking improvement, grammar mastery, and vocabulary building.
What are Irregular Verbs?
- Form: Verb 1st / 2nd / 3rd From.
- Definition: Irregular verbs are verbs that do NOT follow the regular -ed pattern in their past and past participle forms.
- Example:
- go → went → gone
- take → took → taken
- They must be memorized because their forms change unpredictably.
- When to use: when the action or object is more important than the actor, or actor unknown/irrelevant.
- Conversion tip: Irregular verbs appear across all English grammar structures, including perfect tenses, passive voice, modals, infinitives, participles, and causatives.
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Quiz Instructions
- Read each question and choose the best answer out of given options.
- On top, header section of the quiz, you will see the “title of the quiz,’ ‘spending-time,’ ‘value of question in points,’ and ‘number of questions.”
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- The Full Leaderboard link will take you to a page, where you can see all users attempts.
- Below the quiz box, there are explanation of each options. You can study and try again.
- Best of Luck!
Quiz Question, Answer and Explanation
Note: Do remember in the quiz box above, the questions and options will shuffle, so they won’t have the same sequence like 1, 2, 3, or A, B, C as below.
1. She has __ the truth at last.
A) spoken B) spoke C) speak D) speaked
Verb (forms & meaning): speak — V1 speak, V2 spoke, V3 spoken. To utter words.
Correct: A) spoken. Present perfect requires the past participle; “spoken” means she has finally told the truth and this change has immediate relevance.
Why B) spoke is wrong: “Spoke” is V2 and does not work after “has.”
Why C) speak is wrong: Base form cannot be used after “has.”
Why D) speaked is wrong: Invalid/nonexistent form.
2. The birds had __ away before we reached the garden.
A) flown B) flew C) fly D) flyed
Verb (forms & meaning): fly — V1 fly, V2 flew, V3 flown. To move through the air.
Correct: A) flown. Past perfect requires V3; “flown” tells us the birds had left earlier, before our arrival.
Why B) flew is wrong: V2 simple past, not valid after “had.”
Why C) fly is wrong: Base form cannot follow “had.”
Why D) flyed is wrong: Not an English form; irregular verb does not take -ed.
3. She __ all her worries and finally relaxed.
A) forgot B) forgotten C) forget D) forgetten
Verb (forms & meaning): forget — V1 forget, V2 forgot, V3 forgotten. To fail to remember.
Correct: A) forgot. Past Indefinite requires V2; “forgot” shows she no longer remembered the worries and that this state affects the past but we have not idea about present.
Why B) forgotten is wrong: V3 past participle cannot be used alone here.
Why C) forget is wrong: Base form cannot follow “has.”
Why D) forgetten is wrong: Misspelling and incorrect form; the correct participle is “forgotten.”
4. They had __ the car before the mechanic even arrived.
A) driven B) drove C) drive D) drived
Verb (forms & meaning): drive — V1 drive, V2 drove, V3 driven. To operate a vehicle.
Correct: A) driven. Past perfect requires the past participle; “driven” indicates they had completed the driving activity prior to the mechanic’s arrival.
Why B) drove is wrong: V2 simple past; after “had,” you must use V3.
Why C) drive is wrong: Base form cannot follow “had.”
Why D) drived is wrong: Not a valid form — “drive” is irregular and uses “driven.”
5. She has __ the same story many times today.
A) told B) tell C) telled D) telling
Verb (forms & meaning): tell — V1 tell, V2 told, V3 told. To narrate or inform.
Correct: A) told. Present perfect “has ___” requires the past participle; “told” indicates repeated completed acts that are relevant to right now — she has already told it many times today.
Why B) tell is wrong: Base form cannot follow “has.”
Why C) telled is wrong: Incorrect form — the irregular past is “told,” not “telled.”
Why D) telling is wrong: Present participle implies ongoing telling; it would require a different structure, not the present perfect here.
6. By dawn the prescriptions were already __ by doctors.
A) written B) wrote C) write D) writting
Verb (forms & meaning): write — V1 write, V2 wrote, V3 written. To form word to sentence from letters.
Correct: A) written. The sentence uses a past indefinite passive voice (“were already ___”), so the past participle (V3) is required. “written” tells us the importance of the verb and the object, that is prescriptions. The doctors are supporting agents here.
Why B) wrote is wrong: “wrote” is the past form (V2). Following the auxiliary “were” with the past form is ungrammatical in this context; it would not produce a proper past indefinite passive voice meaning.
Why C) write is wrong: “write” is the base form (V1). Following the auxiliary “were” with the base form is ungrammatical in this context; it would not produce a proper past indefinite passive voice meaning.
Why D) writing is wrong: “writing” is the past participle/gerund and would indicate ongoing action in past (e.g., “were writing”), but since it is a passive voice of Past Indefinite, not active voice of Past Continuous then we require the V3 to mark a completed action relative to the past.
7. By sunrise the river had __ several inches, making the road impassable.
A) risen B) rise C) rose D) risend
Verb (forms & meaning): rise — V1 rise, V2 rose, V3 risen. To move upward or increase in level.
Correct: A) risen. “Had ___” requires V3. “Risen” accurately communicates that the river’s level increased before sunrise; this is the past perfect use that places the rise earlier than another past moment (sunrise). The participle “risen” emphasizes the resulting higher water level at the reference time.
Why B) rise is wrong: “Rise” is the base form; it cannot follow “had” in past perfect. Using it would produce an ungrammatical phrase.
Why C) rose is wrong: “Rose” is the simple past (V2). After “had” the grammar demands the past participle (V3), not the simple past.
Why D) risend is wrong: “Risend” is a nonstandard/misspelled form and not used in English.
8. The foreman reported that the workers would __ the beams in place before nightfall.
A) lay B) laid C) laied D) laying
Verb (forms & meaning): lay — V1 lay, V2 laid, V3 laid. To place something down (transitive); note: not to be confused with “lie” (recline).
Correct: A) lay. Modals “Would” demands the base form (V1); “lay.” Saying the beams will be fixed indicates the placement will complete before nightfall. It clearly communicates that the action of positioning the beams preceded in the past and may end in the past.
Why B) laid is wrong: “Laid” is the both past form and past participle form (V2 / V3) and will be wrong after “would.” It will be grammatically incorrect because all Modals comes with “Base form of Verb / V1.” It also risks confusion with the irregular intransitive verb “lie” (lay, lain), so using the wrong form could distort meaning.
Why C) laied is wrong: “Laied” is an incorrect formation; the correct irregular past and participle is “laid.”
Why D) laying is wrong: “Laying” is the present participle and would suggest an ongoing action, not the possible to complete past action required by “would.”
9. After many hours, the rope had __ tightly around the bundle.
A) bound B) bind C) bounded D) binding
Verb (forms & meaning): bind — V1 bind, V2 bound, V3 bound. To tie or fasten tightly.
Correct: A) bound. The past perfect (“had ___”) requires V3; “bound” is the correct past participle and tells us the rope was already tied securely earlier. The result is that the bundle remained fastened at the reference time.
Why B) bind is wrong: “Bind” is the base form and cannot follow “had.” It would make the sentence ungrammatical.
Why C) bounded is wrong: “Bounded” would be a mistaken regularization; the correct irregular form is “bound.”
Why D) binding is wrong: “Binding” is the -ing form and suggests ongoing action rather than the completed state described by the past perfect.
10. They admitted that they had often __ of earlier days when times were simpler.
A) dreamt B) dream C) dreamed D) dreamtly
Verb (forms & meaning): dream — V1 dream, V2 dreamt/dreamed, V3 dreamt/dreamed. To think or imagine during sleep or in daydreams; older/wider usage uses “dreamt.”
Correct: A) dreamt. In the clause “had ___,” the past participle is required. “Dreamt” is an acceptable past participle (especially in British English) and expresses a repeated or habitual mental action that had occurred previously. It indicates they had experienced dreams or nostalgic thoughts prior to the time of admitting.
Why B) dream is wrong: “Dream” is the base form and cannot be used after “had” to form the past perfect.
Why C) dreamed is wrong: While “dreamed” is an acceptable V2/V3 alternative in some dialects, the sentence’s option set requires the specific V3 “dreamt” as presented in A; if both forms were offered, the explanation would depend on preference. Here “dreamed” as C is presented as the less-preferred variant — it would be grammatically possible in American English, but it’s not the answer the question expects.
Why D) dreamtly is wrong: “Dreamtly” is not a real form and does not function as a participle; it’s an invented adverbial-looking form and therefore incorrect.
