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Past Tense Practice
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Past Tense Practice
Help the class newsletter tell the story of yesterday’s coastal clean-up. Read each task carefully. Look for verbs that show an action has already happened.
Spot the past
The past tense tells us that an action happened before now.
1.Which sentence uses the past tense correctly?
- Kai collects shells yesterday.
- Kai collected shells yesterday.
- Kai is collecting shells yesterday.
2.Select all the verbs that have an irregular past-tense form. (An irregular verb does not usually form its past tense by adding -ed.)
- picked
- went
- saw
- cleaned
3.Match each present-tense verb with the correct past-tense form.
- bring
- find
- help
- take
- helped
- found
- brought
- took
Rewrite the newsletter
Change the verbs so the sentences describe actions that are finished.
4.Yesterday, we (pick) up rubbish beside the beach. Rewrite the sentence with the correct past-tense verb.
5.Mia (take) a bucket to the clean-up. Rewrite the sentence with the correct past-tense verb.
6.Chloe writed a thank-you note to the volunteers. Rewrite the sentence using the correct past tense of write.
7.The volunteers (see) a crab and (watch) it scuttle away. Rewrite the whole sentence with both verbs in the past tense.
Read, investigate and write
Read the newsletter draft. Then use its details to complete the tasks.
8.Read this newsletter draft: “Yesterday, the group arrived early. They carried gloves and bags to the sand. Harper found a bottle, and Lachlan put it in a recycling bin. At lunchtime, everyone ate fruit and shared stories.” Write four past-tense verbs from the draft.
9.Complete the sentence from the newsletter draft: “Harper _____ a bottle.”
- find
- found
- finded
10.Write one sentence about an action at the beach clean-up that happened yesterday. Use at least one past-tense verb. You may use a detail from the draft or invent a sensible new one.
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