Understanding Helping Verbs and Tenses

This video tutorial teaches how to form past tense irregular verbs by changing their spelling. It explains the difference between regular and irregular verbs, providing examples like 'eat' to 'ate' and 'sing' to 'sang'. The tutorial also covers the use of helping verbs, which can alter the spelling of the main verb, as in 'see' to 'seen'. By the end, viewers should be able to identify and correctly use irregular past tense verbs.

Which sentence correctly uses the past tense?

• The kids run to the ice cream truck.

• The kids ran to the ice cream truck.

• The kids running to the ice cream truck.

• The kids runs to the ice cream truck.

What is the past tense of 'eat'?

• Eating

• Eats

• Ate

• Eated

Which verb form is in the present tense?

• I walks to school.

• I walking to school.

• I walk to school.

• I walked to school.

How do you determine if a verb is irregular?

• By seeing if it changes spelling in the past tense.

• By checking if it ends with 'ed'.

• By checking if it is a noun.

• By looking if it has a prefix.

What is the past tense of 'do'?

• Does

• Did

• Doed

• Doing

Which sentence uses the correct past tense of 'sing'?

• The class sing a beautiful song.

• The class sang a beautiful song.

• The class sung a beautiful song.

• The class sings a beautiful song.

What happens to some verbs when used with helping verbs?

• They add 'ed' to the end.

• They become nouns.

• They change their spelling again.

• They remain unchanged.

What is the past tense of 'see' when used with a helping verb?

• Seen

• Saw

• See

• Seeing

Which sentence correctly uses a helping verb?

• I has seen a clown.

• I have seen a clown.

• I have saw a clown.

• I had saw a clown.

What should you ask yourself to identify irregular past tense verbs?

• Does the verb sound right?

• Both A and B

• Does the verb look right?

• Is the verb a noun?