2nd Grade Grammar Worksheets - Irregular Verbs - Lucky Little Learners - Free Printable

Let's go through each day of this "Irregular Verbs" worksheet and solve the tasks step by step. This is a fun, engaging activity designed to help students learn irregular verbs in English.

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🔹 DAY 1: Read the present tense verb. Color the correct past tense verb.

We are given present tense verbs and two options for past tense — one correct (irregular), one incorrect (regular form).

| Present Tense | Options | Correct Answer |
|---------------|--------|----------------|
| catch | catched, caught | ✔ caught |
| know | knew, knowed | ✔ knew |
| swim | swam, swum | ✔ swam |
| break | broke, breaked | ✔ broke |
| pay | payed, paid | ✔ paid |
| hold | hoided, held | ✔ held |

✔ Answer Key for Day 1:
Color: caught, knew, swam, broke, paid, held

> 💡 Note: "Swam" is the past tense of "swim", not "swum" (which is past participle). "Held" is correct, not "hoided".

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🔹 DAY 2: Read the words in the bubbles. Color the regular verbs blue and irregular verbs purple.

We’re given a list of verbs in circles. Students must identify which are regular (form past with -ed) vs. irregular (change unpredictably).

Verbs:
- laugh → laughed (regular) → ✔ Blue
- play → played (regular) → ✔ Blue
- sleep → slept (irregular) → ✔ Purple
- go → went (irregular) → ✔ Purple
- wash → washed (regular) → ✔ Blue
- meet → met (irregular) → ✔ Purple
- run → ran (irregular) → ✔ Purple
- sit → sat (irregular) → ✔ Purple
- smile → smiled (regular) → ✔ Blue
- fix → fixed (regular) → ✔ Blue
- tell → told (irregular) → ✔ Purple
- fight → fought (irregular) → ✔ Purple

✔ Color Code:
- Blue (Regular): laugh, play, wash, smile, fix
- Purple (Irregular): sleep, go, meet, run, sit, tell, fight

> 💡 Tip: Regular verbs usually add "-ed" in the past. Irregular ones change spelling (e.g., go → went).

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🔹 DAY 3: Fill in the missing present or past irregular verb.

Each mitten has a word pair: one present, one past. We need to match the correct form based on context.

The mittens show:

1. ring / rang → "I ______ the doorbell." → rang
2. ride / rode → "She ______ her bike yesterday." → rode
3. sell / sold → "They ______ toys at the fair." → sold
4. keep / kept → "He ______ his promise." → kept
5. run / ran → "We ______ to school." → ran
6. take / took → "She ______ my book." → took

✔ Answers:
- ring → rang
- ride → rode
- sell → sold
- keep → kept
- run → ran
- take → took

> 🌟 These are common irregular verbs. Remember: "Ride → rode → ridden", "Take → took → taken", etc.

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🔹 DAY 4: Read the sentences. Color the correct irregular verb.

Choose between two forms — pick the correct one.

1. I _____ the bus this morning to school.
- ride / rode → ✔ rode (past tense)

2. I can _____ a fish in the pond.
- catch / caught → ✔ catch (present tense; "can" + base verb)

3. We will _____ in a plane to the beach.
- fly / flew → ✔ fly (future tense uses base verb)

4. My puppy _____ up so fast.
- grow / grew → ✔ grew (past tense)

✔ Correct Answers:
1. rode
2. catch
3. fly
4. grew

> 💡 Reminder: "Will" takes the base verb. "Can" also takes base verb.

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🔹 DAY 5: Write a sentence about each picture using an irregular verb.

There are two pictures:

1. A sleeping child → Use an irregular verb like sleep, fell asleep, woke up, etc.
- Example: "The boy fell asleep quickly."
(Note: "fell" is past tense of "fall" – irregular.)

2. A child reading a book → Use read, wrote, saw, ate, etc.
- Example: "She read a book before bed."
(Note: "read" pronounced "red" here — past tense of "read".)

✔ Sample Sentences:
1. The baby slept all night.
2. I read a story to my little sister.

> ✍️ Encourage creativity! Any correct sentence using an irregular verb works.

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✔ Final Summary of Answers:

#### Day 1:
- Color: caught, knew, swam, broke, paid, held

#### Day 2:
- Blue (Regular): laugh, play, wash, smile, fix
- Purple (Irregular): sleep, go, meet, run, sit, tell, fight

#### Day 3:
- ring → rang
- ride → rode
- sell → sold
- keep → kept
- run → ran
- take → took

#### Day 4:
1. rode
2. catch
3. fly
4. grew

#### Day 5:
1. The child slept peacefully.
2. She read a book.

> 🎉 This worksheet helps build vocabulary and understanding of irregular verbs through visual, interactive learning!

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