Brain POP Tenses

Which of the following sentences includes an infinitive?

• Cassie drove her car to school.

• Rita wants to be a doctor when she grows up.

• Moby is going to Europe next summer.

• Tim will soon need a new toothbrush.

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CCSS.L.8.1A

Which of the following sentences contains an irregular verb?

• I ate a tuna sandwich for lunch.

• I want to visit the Empire State Building.

• I enjoy surging, basketball, and ice hockey.

• My heart is racing.

The verb "to know" is irregular in which tense?

• The present tense

• The future tense

• The past tense

• All three tenses

Which word often appears when a verb is conjugated in the future tense?

• can

• will

• are

• was

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CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

• Tim rides his bike to the store, and bought milk.

• Cassie will take a math quiz, and got a B.

• Rita will cut her hair; it's a lot shorter now.

• Moby tossed the ball to Tim, and Tim threw it back.

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

If a verb is irregular in the past tense:

• It must be irregular in the present tense.

• Its past tense form usually doesn't end in "ed"

• It must be irregular in the future tense

• Its past tense form usually ends in "-ed"

What is wrong with the following sentence? "Yesterday, Cassie throwed a fastball right over the plate."

• The verb is in its infinitive form; it should be conjugated.

• The snetence does not contain a verb.

• The action seems to take place in both past and present.

• "Throw" is an irregular verb in the past tense; it should be "threw".

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CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Which of the following sentences is in the present tense?

• Moby and Tim are best friends.

• Cassie went to Rita's house after school.

• Bob the Rat escaped from a science lab.

• Everyone is going to the beach on Saturday.

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CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

• Cassie readed a magazine during lunch.

• Moby buyed a new video game.

• Tim caught the flu and stayed home from school.

• Rita gived Cassie a sweater for her birthday.

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CCSS.L.3.1D

CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

What is one major difference between the past tense and the present tense?

• The present tense contains more irregular verbs than the past tense.

• The present tense describe events that took place in the past, but the past tense cannot describe events that take place in the present.

• Verbs in the present tense are often similar to their infinitive forms; verbs in the past tense often require a suffix.

• The present tense requires you to add phrases like "will' or "going to" before each verb; the past tense does not.

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CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D