10 questions
5th - 5th Grade
English
Past Tense Irregular Verbs Quiz is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet that helps students recognize and use irregular past-tense forms. Across 10 items, students answer multiple-choice questions, match verbs to their irregular forms, complete sentences, drag a word into context, sort verbs into categories, and select answers from a dropdown. The examples include bring/brought, throw/threw, take/took, write/wrote, think/thought, see/saw, win/won, and catch/caught. This worksheet gives students practice choosing the correct past-tense form in isolation and applying it within complete sentences. The classification task also helps them distinguish verb patterns rather than adding -ed automatically to every verb. It is suitable for Grade 5 grammar practice, review, independent work, or a quick formative assessment, and includes a complete answer key for checking student responses.
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WorksheetsAnswer Keybrought
are
-were
,sell
-sold
,come
-came
,grow
-grew
,run
-ran
showed
filled
danced
visited
drove
slept
taught
ate
wish
stretch
show
create
thought
saw
caught
This Grade 5 worksheet covers choosing and using irregular past-tense verb forms, including brought, threw, took, wrote, thought, saw, won, and caught. Its 10 questions use multiple choice, matching, fill-in-the-blank, drag-and-drop, classification, and dropdown formats so students practice both recognizing forms and applying them in sentences.
Introduce the worksheet by modeling how verbs such as bring become brought and write become wrote instead of taking a regular -ed ending. Then have students complete the sentence items, such as “Jake (throw) the ball,” before using the matching and classification tasks to discuss patterns and exceptions. Ask students to explain why forms such as thought, saw, and caught are correct in context.
Watch for students adding -ed to irregular verbs, choosing forms such as thinked, writed, or catched, or selecting the base form instead of the past tense in a sentence. In the matching and classification items, students may also confuse present and past forms, such as show and showed or drive and drove. Check that they use context words such as yesterday and before to identify the required tense.
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