Irregular Verbs U3W5 (5th Grade)

Irregular Verbs U3W5 (5th Grade)

Regular and Irregular Verbs

•  Regular past-tense verbs end with -ed: walk/walked.

• Irregular past-tense verbs do not end with -ed: run/ran.

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Multiple Choice

Which verb is a regular past tense verb?

• kick

• sing

• kicked

• ate

Multiple Choice

Which verb is an irregular past tense verb?

• kick

• sing

• kicked

• ate

Multiple Choice

What is the past tense of begin?

• begin

• begins

• began

Multiple Choice

What is the correct past tense of sleep?

• sleep

• slept

• sleeps

Multiple Choice

Which verb is the past tense of drive?

• drove

• drives

• drive

Irregular verbs

• Some irregular verbs have special endings when used with the helping verbs have, has, or had. 

• When have, has, or had is used, the verb is called the past participle.

• Some of the past participles change form again, some go back to the present verb

Irregular Verbs with the Past Participle

When using the helping verbs have, has, or had:

speak becomes spoken

eat becomes eaten

bring becomes brought

see becomes seen

fall becomes fallen

Multiple Choice

Which past participle would complete the sentence:

Mom has ________ to my teacher many times.

• speak

• spoke

• spoken

Multiple Choice

Which past participle would complete the sentence:

Mom had ___________ the teacher her phone number.

• given

• give

• gave

Multiple Choice

Which past participle would complete the sentence:

The teacher had __________ a grade on the test.

• write

• written

• wrote

Multiple Choice

Which past participle would complete the sentence:

I should have ___________ the grade would be low.

• know

• knew

• known

Multiple Choice

Which past participle would complete the sentence:

If I worked harder, I would have __________ a better grade.

• get

• gotten

• got