ELA · Grammar
Verb Tenses: Past, Present and Future
Name the tense, change sentences between past, present and future, and add -ed correctly.
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What tense is "She will dance"?
- A future
- B present
- C past
What tense is "I jumped over the puddle"?
- A past
- B present
- C future
What tense is "We play outside"?
- A future
- B past
- C present
What tense is "They walked to school"?
- A future
- B present
- C past
What tense is "He will eat lunch soon"?
- A present
- B past
- C future
What tense is "The cat sleeps on the rug"?
- A present
- B future
- C past
Change to past tense: "I walk home."
- A I will walk home.
- B I walked home.
- C I walking home.
Change to future tense: "We bake cookies."
- A We bakes cookies.
- B We baked cookies.
- C We will bake cookies.
Change to present tense: "She sang a song."
- A She sings a song.
- B She singed a song.
- C She will sing a song.
Yesterday, I ___ my room.
- A will clean
- B clean
- C cleaned
Tomorrow, we ___ to the beach.
- A went
- B will go
- C goes
Right now, the baby ___.
- A is sleeping
- B will sleep
- C slept
Last night, it ___ a lot.
- A will rain
- B rains
- C rained
Next week, I ___ ten years old.
- A will be
- B am
- C was
Every day, he ___ his teeth.
- A will brush
- B brushes
- C brushed
Last summer, we ___ a big fish.
- A catch
- B will catch
- C caught
Which word tells that something happened in the past?
- A tomorrow
- B yesterday
- C soon
- D next week
Which word tells that something will happen in the future?
- A yesterday
- B tomorrow
- C ago
- D last week
Which sentence is in the past tense?
- A We visit Grandma.
- B We will visit Grandma.
- C We visited Grandma.
Which sentence is in the future tense?
- A I read a book.
- B I am reading a book.
- C I will read a book.
Which sentence is in the present tense?
- A The dog runs fast.
- B The dog ran fast.
- C The dog will run fast.
What is the past tense of "hop"?
- A hops
- B hopped
- C hoped
- D hopping
What is the past tense of "cry"?
- A cryed
- B cried
- C crying
- D cries
What is the past tense of "bake"?
- A baked
- B bakes
- C bakeed
- D baking
What is the past tense of "carry"?
- A carrying
- B carrys
- C carryed
- D carried
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