Grammar Picnic
Choose the past tense
10 sentences · All kinds, Fix the past tense, Choose the past tense, Write the past tense of the verb
Read the whole sentence, then choose the word or phrase that completes it.
Practice settings
Some verbs do not add -ed in the past: eat, ate; catch, caught; find, found.
Example 1Choose the right word.
The boy ____ the whale.
The boy saw the whale.
see has its own past tense: saw.
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Two pages: the worksheet, then the answer key.
Choose the right word.
- Grandma ____ the leaves at eight. (sweeped / swept / sweeping)
- The bus ____ the station. (leaving / left / leaved)
- The monkeys ____ the nuts. (hid / hiding / hided)
- The girls ____ the doors at eight. (shut / shutted / shutting)
- The foxes ____ a hole. (dug / digged / digging)
- I ____ some coins. (spending / spended / spent)
- The sailor's boat ____. (sinked / sank / sinking)
- The farmers ____ the hen. (feeding / feeded / fed)
- The camel ____ water. (drinking / drank / drinked)
- The bears ____ fish. (caught / catching / catched)
- swept
sweep has its own past tense: swept.
- left
leave has its own past tense: left.
- hid
hide has its own past tense: hid.
- shut
shut has its own past tense: shut.
- dug
dig has its own past tense: dug.
- spent
spend has its own past tense: spent.
- sank
sink has its own past tense: sank.
- fed
feed has its own past tense: fed.
- drank
drink has its own past tense: drank.
- caught
catch has its own past tense: caught.
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