Past Tense of Irregular Verbs Worksheets
Related ELA Standard: L.2.1.D
Irregular verbs do not follow any set or for that matter, predictable pattern when forming tenses. There are several irregular verbs that do not change tense at all. An example would be the word "shut". Regardless of when this action is taken place, the verb never takes on any other form. A few other irregular words end up being completely different words. When irregular verbs are used by writers the purpose is to engage the memory of their audience. This can helpful to make a body of work much more appealing to readers. The worksheets in the series below will get your students driving in the right direction with tense changes of these types of action words.
Past Tense Worksheets To Print:
What Did You Do This Summer? - Paula forgot to write her story in the present tense, but it already happened. Help her out!
Save the Polar Bears! - The poor bears are stuck on the ice shelves. Do this with your words. The ice caps are melting! Help the polar bears onto the ice by circling every polar bear that has the correct set of present and past tense verbs. How many polar bears will fit onto the ice?
Wanted: Irregular Past Tense Verbs - Sheriff Jack has a pretty easy job upholding the law. Being a former English teacher has helped him.
Harvest Day - Help Farmer Bill harvest the right tomatoes. Every tomato has a set of verbs inside. If a tomato has the correct past tense of the present tense verb it is paired with, color it red. If the past tense is incorrect, color it green.
To The Castle - A little game board fun for you. Follow the path, filling in the past tense of the word you are walking on as you go. When you get to a stone with a question mark, choose which direction to go by deciding which of the adjoining stones has the correct past tense of the verb. Circle it, and then take that route. Can you find your way to the castle? If you run into a dead end, you've chosen wrong. Back up and try again!
Fill in the Blank - Hop, skip, and jump your way through this word bank activity. Just properly complete all the sentences.
Ball Toss - Determine if the past tense verb in each ball is correct. If it is, write it on a line in bin #1. If it isn't, write the correct past tense verb on a line in bin #2.
Put it in the Past! - Circle the correct past tense form of the verb to complete the sentence. Reading them aloud will help.
Present | Past Chest - This isn't as easy as it looks. Underline the verb. Then write the verb's past form on the line provided.
What's For Lunch? - Circle or write in the best answer.
Tarzan's Jungle Swing - Help Tarzan swing from vine to vine by writing the past tense of each verb on the line below the vine.
Pie in the Face! - Throwing pies has never been so much fun! Throw a pie for charity! There are two words in each pie. Some sets have the correct past tense and some sets do not. . Every pie you color gets thrown at Mr. Miller, and for every pie that hits Mr. Miller, $5 is donated to charity!
Match Those Tenses - A quick tense matching activity for students.
The Sentence Fixer-Upper - What if everything in these sentences already happened?
Sentence Clean-Up - Help the maid clean up these sentences they have a bit of dust on them.
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