Regular Past Tense Verbs

What's special about verbs?

Verbs mark time

Past, present and future.

I taught at Georgia State-Perimeter College

I teach at Clarkston High School.

I will teach Clarkston High School next week.

Verbs can

do so
much!

Multiple Choice

What is a verb?

• Person, place or thing

• An action or linking word

• an, a, the

• words that give directions: over, under, at, to...

Multiple Choice

What is one thing that verbs can do?

• They can't do anything.

• They mark place.

• They tell who a person is.

• They mark time.

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To show facts, things are are commonly known or things that
happen all the time.

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To show things that happened or will happen and most likely won’t be repeated.

Past

Present

Future

I went to the store.

I go to the store
every Sunday.

I will go to the store
tomorrow.

Simple Tense

When do you use the simple past?

●Simple past= when something is complete.

How do you form the simple past?

●Simple past= when something is complete.

Multiple Select

When do writers use simple verb tense?

• To show facts, things are are commonly known or things that happen all the time.

• Any time they want.

• To show things that happened or will happen and most likely won’t be repeated.

• To show something that will happen.

• To show things that happened or will happen and most likely won’t be repeated.

Spelling Rules for- Regular Past Tense Verbs

Regular verbs ending in a silent e take /-d/ in the simple past and past participle:
Example:

Fake= Faked

Bake=Baked

Open Ended

In 1 minute, write as many past tense verbs that end in -e. For example, bake.

Spelling Rules for- Regular Past Tense Verbs

All the other regular verbs take /-ed/ in the simple past and past participle.
Example:
visit=visited

Open Ended

In 1 minute, write as many past tense verbs that are completely normal: visit= visited

Regular verbs ending in a consonant + y take /-ied/ in the simple past and past participle (the ' y' becomes an '
i' followed by /-ed/)
Example:
marry=married

Open Ended

In 1 minute, write as many past tense verbs ending in a consonant + y: marry=married.

Spelling Rules for- Regular Past Tense Verbs

Regular verbs ending in a vowel + y take /-ed/ in the simple past and past participle:
Example:
play=played

Multiple Select

What did you do yesterday?

• I fixed my car.

• I am fixing my car.

• I fix my car.

Multiple Select

What did your son do today?

• He plays the piano.

• He playing the piano.

• He played the piano.

Multiple Select

What did your daughter do today?

• He listened to music.

• She listening to music.

• She listened to music.

Multiple Select

What did your parents do today?

• They walket to the park.

• They are walking to the park.

• They walked to the park.

Multiple Select

What did you and Susan do today?

• We studyed English.

• We studied English.

• We study English.

Multiple Select

What did you and your friends do last night?

• We danced all night.

• We are dancing all night.

• We danct all night.