Match each base form to its past simple form.
Correct answer
- spoilspoilt / spoiled
- lightlit / lighted
- proveproved
- showshowed
- wakewoke
Explanation
The verbs in this past-simple set represent 3 verbs using a shared past-and-participle pattern with accepted spelling variants, 1 verb using separate past and participle patterns with accepted variants, and 1 verb using separate changes for past and participle. Past-tense matching depends on the verb's pattern class, while a form borrowed from a neighboring class is only a distractor; the dominant class is a shared past-and-participle pattern with accepted spelling variants (3 of 5), with 3 pattern classes represented.