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Irregular Past Tense
This learning exercise provides extensive experience with the past tense of the verbs begin, drink, ring, sink, sing, and swim. Your young grammarians write the past tense form of each one, use the past tense of each verb in a complete...
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Rewriting a Dialogue (removing quotes)
This is a great activity! Upper elementary learners read a dialogue-driven passage. Then, they rewrite lines of dialogue by removing the quotation marks and shifting the verb tense to past. Grammar and great writing skills all in one. An...
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Present Tense, Adverbs of Frequency
How often do your kids ride their bikes to school, or go to the parks on Saturdays? Use adverbs of frequency to indicate the times that things occur in a grammar worksheet, which also features activities on verbs in the present tense.
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Verb Tense Stories
For this verb tense worksheet, students circle the verbs in the story, rewrite them in the past tense, and then rewrite the story with the past tense verbs. Students do this for 26 verbs.
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Dropped Endings and Verb Tense Worksheet 1
In this grammar activity, students rewrite a paragraph changing it from present tense to past tense. Students check for omitted endings from nouns as well.
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The Present Is Perfect: Using Present Perfect Tense
Your developing language users rewrite 10 sentences by changing the underlined verbs to present perfect tense verbs with one of the helping verbs: have, has, or had. Resource contains explanatory material as well as a practice...
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The Past Tense -- Simple Past
A quick review of the past tense begins this worksheet. It focuses on the simple past, and has a diagram to identify past actions in visual terms. Adding -ed or -ied is explained, and the past forms of to be are clarified. However, it...
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Checking Grammar: Accuracy
Get young writers in the practice of editing their work using this punctuation and grammar worksheet. They first read eight sentences with grammar issues, rewriting or checking off as correct. The sentence errors involve subject-verb...
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Subject-Verb Agreement - To Be (was,were)
Was he or were they? Young grammarians are challenged to use the correct past tense form of to be in the 10 sentences of a grammar practice worksheet. Because no definitions or examples are given, you might use the exercise as an...
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Grammar Practice: Consistency of Tense
After a concise explanation of verb inconsistency, learners study detailed examples and then rewrite a series of sentences to eliminate tense inconsistencies. An answer key is provided. The worksheet could be used as part of a mini...
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Keeping verb tense consistent (Middle, Reading/Writing)
Students improve their personal and academic writing by use of one consistent verb tense.
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Irregular Verbs, Some & Any, Questions, Going To (Verb Tense)
For this irregular verbs worksheet, students translate the verbs and write the past tense forms, choose correct uses for "some" & "any", rewrite questions words in the right order and change the tense of "to be going" phrases.
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Future tense
Students explore the function of verbs when considering tense. They read a story that is written in past tense and discuss how to change it to future tense. Students transform a news story from past to future tense.
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Present Tense
In this present tense worksheet, students identify and rewrite sentences with mistakes. Students write ten complete sentence.
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Irregular Verbs
In this verb usage worksheet, learners practice using irregular verbs. Students have ten sentences which they rewrite changing the verb to past tense. Learners also write a question using the original form of the verb.
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Verbs: Did or Have Done
Study the present perfect or past simple verb forms with this resource. There are two exercises provided; in the first, budding grammarians complete a set of eight sentences with the correct verb form. In the second, they rewrite a list...
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Tenses, Tenses, Tenses
Feeling tense about grammar? Bring this English worksheet about verb tenses to your writing conventions unit. Middle schoolers rewrite sentences using the appropriate tense. They use the negative form or interrogative form. Five...
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Past Tense Exercise
In this online interactive verbs activity, students rewrite 25 sentences online changing their present tense verbs to past tense verbs. Students type each sentence in the white boxes provided.
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The Present Tense: Simple and Progressive
In this present tense activity, students put the base words into the correct categories according to the s or es for the third person singular present tense of the word. Students complete this for 30 words, correct sentences, and write...
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ESL: Present Perfect and Present Simple Tense
Your English learners, or young native speakers, can practice converting affirmative sentences into negative ones using various verb forms. Forty-five opportunities are provided. Page contains links to additional resources and audio...
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Present Tense - Questions
For this forming questions worksheet, students read the statements and then rewrite them to form questions in the present tense. Students complete 15 online exercises.
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Simple Past Tense
In this simple past tense worksheet, students rewrite sentences, write interrogative sentences, change sentences, and ask questions. Students complete 47 sentences total.
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Past Tense
Students explore the function of verbs when considering tense. They transform a text from future to past tense. Students read a story and discover it is written in past tense. In groups, students rewrite the verbs in the text to...
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Past Experiences-Past Tense Verbs
In this past-tense sentence construction worksheet, 4th graders rewrite sentences practicing the past tense of "be". They rewrite sentences in the negative, reorder sentences to make questions and write a paragraph.