Irregular Verb Tenses

Irregular Past

Tense Verbs

Ms. Guerrero

Multiple Choice

A verb describes....

• person, place, thing or idea

• action or state of being

• grammar

• location

Multiple Choice

Verb tense explains...

• where something is located

• how many nouns are impacted

• when an action took place

• grammar

​For most verbs:

Make them past tense by adding -ed​

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kick------kicked

jump------jumped​

​But some verbs are IRREGULAR:

Make them past tense by changing the spelling.​

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go------went

see------saw

Multiple Choice

Find the past tense irregular verb to fill in the blank.

Yesterday, I ________ a Lego house.

• build

• builded

• built

• builted

Multiple Choice

Find the past tense irregular verb to fill in the blank.

This morning, I ________ on my sister's chair.

• sit

• sat

• sitted

• satted

Multiple Choice

Find the past tense irregular verb to fill in the blank.

Last night, my dog ________ a hole in the yard.

• dig

• digged

• dugged

• dug

Multiple Choice

Find the past tense irregular verb to fill in the blank.

When I was five, I ________ a picture of a dinosaur.

• draw

• drew

• drawed

• drewed

Multiple Choice

Find the past tense irregular verb to fill in the blank.

This morning, I ________ pancakes.

• ate

• eat

• eated

• ated

Multiple Choice

Find the past tense irregular verb to fill in the blank.

The mouse _____ me when I tried to pet him.

• bit

• bited

• bites

• bitted

Open Ended

Write the irregular past tense verb.

Last night, my uncle _______ to my baseball game. (come)

​You should have wrote:

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came​

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Last night, my uncle came to my baseball game.​

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Open Ended

Write the irregular past tense verb.

Last winter I _______ on the ice. (fall)

​You should have wrote:

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fell​

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Last winter I fell on the ice.

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Match

Match the present and past-tense verbs

• think

• drive

• ride

• feel

• blow

thought

drove

rode

felt

blew

• thought

• drove

• rode

• felt

• blew

Match

Match the present and past-tense verbs

• wish

• sing

• write

• drink

• talk

wished (regular)

sang (irregular)

wrote (irregular)

drank (irregular)

talked (regular)

• wished (regular)

• sang (irregular)

• wrote (irregular)

• drank (irregular)

• talked (regular)