This story has lots of mistakes. There are 33 verbs in the wrong tense! Can you find them all:
It is really important when learning the past tenses, that you learn both the past simple form of the verb and the past participle. You also need to learn when you use them.
Present Perfect:
Have + past participle
E.g. I have studied dance for five years.
Look at the paragraph below and change the verbs in brackets into past tense.
These two tenses are both used to talk about things that happened in the past. However we use past perfect to talk about something that happened before another action in the past, which is usually expressed by the past simple.
For example:
"I had already eaten my dinner when he called."
In other words, First I ate my dinner, then he called.
The past perfect is often used with already, yet, just and even.
Most verbs follow the rule of adding 'ed' when we want to say them in past simple, but some verbs sadly don't. These are the ones we just have to learn.
Can you remember what the following verbs are in past simple. Careful, some of them might be regular and some might not!
Today's lesson is by Caroline
Today we review the past simple tense. Change these ten verbs into the past simple tense and add them to the correct sentences.
Think carefully about the tense and spelling!
Link: Verb Tense Review
Time for a basic review of the past simple tense. All you have to do is complete the sentences using the past simple tense.
I expect you all to get 10/10! Can you do it? Don't disappoint me!
We use the simple past tense for actions that began and finished in the past. We do not have to say exactly when. The important thing is that it happened and is not happening now.
'I saw it'
The past participle is used with the following tenses:
'Sandra picked an apple.'
The past simple tense is, of course, used to talk about things which have happened in the past. Here are a few points for you to review and rememeber
Past Simple is used to describe events which happened in the past.
