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Simple Past: Regular and Irregular Verbs

Simple Past: Regular and Irregular Verbs

Put the verb in brackets in the correct simple past form. Note that some of these verbs are REGULAR and some are IRREGULAR.

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painterEmily Carr, British Columbia's most famous artist, (be) born in 1871. Her parents (die) when she was still a teenager. She (study) art in San Francisco and Paris, but when she (come) back to Victoria, she (keep) a house called "The House of All Sorts", where she (be) the landlady. Many years later, she (begin) painting again. To find subjects for her paintings, she (take) trips into the forests of British Columbia, and she often (meet) with the First Nations people and (paint) them too. Emily Carr also (write) several books, and she (win) the Governor General's Award for one of them.