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The Topic Sentence

For Students 4th - 8th
In this composition worksheet, learners write topic sentences about the picture that is shown to them. Students write 3 sentences about a robber.
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Verb Review 1 (Past/Past Progressive)

For Students 5th - 6th
In this verb tenses activity, students change the verbs in parentheses to fit each of 14 sentences. Verbs may be present, past or progressive tense.
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Irregular Verbs: past and participle tense

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students put irregular verbs into past tense, participle tense, and fill in the blanks to sentences. Students complete 2 activities.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion: 21

For Students 4th
In this sentence completion worksheet, 4th graders fill in the blanks with 2 words for each sentence. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Avoir, Être, et Le Passé Composé

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The lesson begins with direct instruction: how and when do we use avoir and être to form the past tense? After identifying the verbs that use either avoir or être, French learners write about five things they did the week prior. Then, in...
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Avoiding Nominalization

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Improve syntax with this explanatory handout. It clarifies one way to make writing more precise: avoiding nominalization. This resource provides four ways to find and change nominalization problems and 10 sentences to correct. There are...
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The Past Simple Exercise

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this simple past tense worksheet, students use the past tense of given verbs to correctly complete each sentence.
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Tenses Tenses Tenses

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this past simple and past perfect simple tense worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to sentences with either the past simple or past perfect simple tense of the word provided. Students complete 51 sentences.
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Language Practice: Simple Past tense, Past Tense of "to be" and the Preposition of Place

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this past tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences, write sentences, use prepositions, and more. Students complete 3 activities.
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Past Simple or Present Perfect?

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
In this ESL verb tense worksheet, students read 10 sentences with the verbs omitted. Students insert either a past simple or present perfect verb.
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ESL: Irregular Verbs-Past Simple

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL irregular/past simple verb worksheet, students complete sentence by filling in blanks with the correct verb and unscramble verbs.
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Simple Past Tense Regular Verbs - ed Pronunciation

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this simple past tense worksheet, students read words, read sentences, and more for words ending in -ed. Students complete 3 activities.
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Describing Graphs

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this graphs learning exercise, students fill in the blanks to sentences to describe graphs. Students complete 19 sentences total on this learning exercise.
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Time Signifiers - Past or Present Perfect?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students refine their usage of past simple or present perfect. After a lecture/demo, students work in pairs and utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to help them gain practice with time signifiers.
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English in Mind Unit 9: Grammar Practice

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this grammar practice worksheet, learners complete thirty eight fill in the blank sentences focusing on the past simple passive form of verbs, and using a, an, or the.
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Present Perfect/Past Tense

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this grammar quiz worksheet, learners read the sentences and select the present perfect or past tense form of the verb to complete the exercises. Students complete an online grammar quiz using present perfect or past tense form of...
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Simple Past Tense: was/were

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this simple past worksheet, students rewrite sentences using the simple past forms, write adverbs, fill in the blanks with was and were, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Quiz 3A: Using -ed

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this grammar worksheet on tense, students complete a set of 10 sentences, filling in the correct form of the verb [simple present or simple past].
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Verbs in Simple Past Tense "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this simple past tense instructional activity, learners fill in blanks with simple past verbs to complete sentences about "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Simple Past Tense Verbs

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this verb worksheet, students complete sentences by filling in correct simple past tense forms of verbs given. Answers may be checked online.
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Rules For Using Irregular Verbs

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Add to the grammar toolboxes of young scholars with this comprehensive resource on irregular verbs. Offering clear instruction with the help of numerous examples, this reference document is perfect for upper-elementary English...
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Verb Tenses

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Why is it so important to have consistent verb tense when writing? Discuss some of the implications with your middle and high school classes. Examples are provided, and both incorrect and corrected sentences are shown. There's a lot of...
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How to Get from Bed to Work in 27 Easy Steps!

For Students 4th - 6th
In this past simple verbs worksheet, students choose the correct past simple verb in twenty sentences that make them grammatically correct.
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Verb Tense Practice Worksheet

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...