Verb Tense and Irregular Verbs Review

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Verb Tense and Irregular Verbs Review

• Learning Objective Use regular and irregular
  verbs correctly
• W.C. 1.3

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Verb Tenses

• Present- Tells what is happening now

• Future -Tells what will happen in the future

Past- tells what happened in the past
I have read the book

• I will read a book later.

I am reading a book.

• Verb is a word that expresses action or a state
  of being

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Regular Verb Tense

• A regular verb forms the past tense by adding d
  or ed to the end of the verb.
• Example Tim patiently cooks spaghetti for
  dinner.
• The action in the sentence is cooks.
• Verbs can also indicate the tense of the
  sentence
• Present tense Tim patiently cooks spaghetti for
  dinner.
• Past tense Tim patiently cooked spaghetti for
  dinner
• (notice regular verbs in with d or ed )
• Future tense Tim will cook spaghetti for dinner.
• (notice the helping verb will comes before the
  action verb)

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• Read this sentence.When Mark answered the
  question, he spoke slowly enough to be understood
  by everyone in the room.
• Which word is the regular verb?
• answered
• spoke
• enough
• by

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• Emily questioned the teacher, Why do we have to
  write this down?
• Which word is the regular verb?
• questioned
• teacher
• have
• write

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What is the tense?

• Today we will give Mary a surprise party.
• present
• future
• Past
• What is the clue word?

will
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What is the tense?

• Tourists and locals enjoy watching the whales.
• present
• future
• Past
• What is the clue?

ing
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Irregular Verbs are verbs that do not add ed to
form the past tense. Instead, the spelling of the
verb changes.

• Ernesto (see) a poster at the city swimming pool.
• What is the past tense of see?

saw This is an irregular verb because we do not
add ed instead we change the word.
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Irregular Verbs

• The performers ran up the stage at the end of the
  show.
• Which underlined word is the irregular verb.
• A. performers
• B. ran
• C. at

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• She walked home and ate her banana along the way.
  
• Which underlined word is the irregular verb.
• walked
• ate
• way
• along

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Which is the correct way to use the verb?

• We swim in the city pool several times tomorrow.

• We ride horses at my grandfathers farm yesterday.

• A. riding
• B. rode
• C. will ride
• D. no change

• A. are swimming
• B. was swimming
• C. will swim
• D. no change

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• He studied insects when he was in college.

• My mother and I found the key to an old trunk of
  family photographs.

• What is the verb in the sentence? Is it a
  regular verb or irregular? Why?

• What is the verb in the sentence? Is it a
  regular verb or irregular? Why?