Question

A list of ten verbs used in the simple past tense

Answer 1

Read

Learn

Work

Do

Go

Walk

Talk

take

Help

Look

These are 10 Verb used in simple tenses

Answer 2

The simple past forms of 'be' are 'was' and 'were.' The past participle is 'been.'

Use 'was' with I, he, she, or it: "I was tired, but she (or Mary, or my mother) was still energetic. Actually, I have been tired for two days now."  

Use 'were' with you or any plural nouns or pronouns. "You were in Denver last week, weren't you? Were your sisters there too?" "Yes, they were. We were all together for the weekend."

Using the Lists

Examples from each of 12 irregular verb lists to help you remember similar endings: from list 4 (bought, thought), list 5 (grow> grew> grown; know> knew> known), to list 10 (bend> bent; send> sent.)

These lists will help you learn the verbs you don’t know yet by arranging them into groups with similar patterns.

(Often you will know at least one of a group: link the others to it to learn several “for the price of one.”)

After the ‘top twenty’ most useful irregular verbs, the lists group rhyming or other similar forms together.  

Note that more than half of these, like regular English verbs, end in ‘d’ or the related ‘t’ sound.

All regular-- and the majority of irregular-- past participles are the same as the simple past form. You might notice that most of the past participles that are different end in ‘n’ or ‘en’-- the old (Middle English) form.

All the past participles, whether the same or different from the simple past form, are included in these lists to leave no doubts.

For each of the following irregular verbs, the first form is the present (and base), the second is the simple past, and the third is the past participle (pp).