Past Simple Pronunciation
| Present | Past Simple | |
| be | was / were | |
| become | became | |
| begin | began | |
| bring | brought | |
| buy | bought | |
| choose | chose | |
| come | came | |
| do | did | |
| drink | drank | |
| drive | drove | |
| eat | ate | |
| fall | fell | |
| feel | felt | |
| find | found | |
| fly | flew | |
| forget | forgot | |
| get | got | |
| give | gave | |
| go | went | |
| have | had | |
| hear | heard | |
| keep | kept | |
| know | knew | |
| leave | left | |
| lend | lent | |
| let | let | |
| lose | lost | |
| make | made | |
| meet | met | |
| pay | paid | |
| put | put | |
| read | read (pronounced /red/) | |
| run | ran | |
| say | said | |
| see | saw | |
| sell | sold | |
| send | sent | |
| sing | sang | |
| sit | sat | |
| sleep | slept | |
| speak | spoke | |
| stand | stood | |
| swim | swam | |
| take | took | |
| teach | taught | |
| tell | told | |
| think | thought | |
| understand | understood | |
| wear | wore | |
| write | wrote |