Here is the poem with the verbs in their correct past form in bold. How many did you get right?
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The verbs in English are a fright.
How can we learn to read and write?
Today we speak, but first we spoke;
Some faucets leak, but never leaked.
Today we write, but first we wrote;
We bite our tongues, but never bit.
Each day I teach, for years I taught;
And preachers preach, but never preached.
This tale I tell, this tale I told;
I smell the flowres, but never smelled / smelt.
If knights still slay as once they slew,
Then do we play as once we played?
If I still do as once I did,
Then do cows moo as once they mooed?
I love to win, and games I won;
I seldom sin, and never sinned.
I hate to lose, and games I lost;
I didn't choose, and never chose.
I love to sing, and songs I sang;
I fling the ball, but never flung.
I strike the ball, that ball I struck;
This poem I like, but never liked.
I take a break, a break I took;
I bake a cake, but never baked.
I eat that cake, that cake I ate.
I beat an egg, but never beat.
I often swim, as once I swam;
I skim some milk, but never skimmed.
I fly a kite that once I flew;
I tie a knot, but never tied.
I see the truth, the truth I saw;
I flee from falsehhod, never fled.
I stand for truth, as once I stood;
I land a fish, but never landed.
About these verbs I sit and think.
These verbs don't fit. They seem to wink
At me, who sat for years and thought
Of verbs that never fitted or winked.
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