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Irregular Verbs: Practice 2

Write the past tense form of the verb in parentheses to complete the passage.

The Patriot Game

The United States _________ (become) independent in 1776, but the road to

independence ______ (begin) many years before that. As new settlers _______

(come) to the American continent in the 1600s, they _______ (find) life very difficult.
They ______ (bring) many skills, but they ________ (meet) many difficulties. Settlers

in the southern colonies such as Maryland and Virginia ________ more (get)

support from England because the English _________ (send) them to the new world.

But the colonists in New England, who ______ (leave) England in protest, _______ (run)

into more problems. They _______ (break) their ties with England right away and

________ (build) their own society…or they tried to. Being colonists ________ (cost) them

a lot. They ________ (pay) taxes on tea, on stamps, and anything that they _______ (buy)

or ______ (sell) but England ______ (dig) deeper and deeper and______ (make)

it impossible to live as a colonist.

You probably ________ (hear) about how Paul Revere ________ (ride) through the

night in 1775 to warn the colonists that the British were coming. However,

Revere also ________ (fight) for independence long before that. He ________

(stand) with the rebels in 1770 at the Boston Massacre and nearly ________ (lose) his

life that day when five "patriots" died. The colonists ________ (pay) a bitter

price before they ________ (win) the Revolutionary War in 1781. When the

United States ________ (rise) as a nation and _____ (fly) its own flag, it

_________ (shake) the old European powers and the world has never been

the same.

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