Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Past Participle
View pictures and answer the questions relating to the picture in either the present perfect tense or using the past participle as an adjective. Click the "?" if you are uncertain about an answer.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: When to Use the Past Tense for Irregular Verbs
Often when we write the past tense of a regular verb, we add an "-ed" after the last letter. Irregular verbs do not follow this rule! The simple past and simple participle of irregular verbs can end in a variety of ways with no...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Past Perfect
This video lesson focuses on the past perfect verb tense; it defines perfect tense, participles, and past perfect. It explains the requirements to form a past perfect tense including the use of the helping verb "had." It offers practice...
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Past Perfect
Excellent explanation of the formation of the past perfect tense. Free, interactive activities include an online quiz and test for mastery. The printer friendly page makes a nice review master for students keeping a notebook.
English Club
English Club: Basic Tenses: Regular Verbs
Notes and examples of verb tense including past, present, future, past participle, present participle, simple, continuous, perfect, and continuous perfect.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using the Present Progressive Tense
Present progressives describe an action in progress, or something that started in the past and is still happening. It is formed with the helping "to be" verb in the present tense and the present participle of the verb. [0:42]
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Perfect Tense
Review examples and then complete three online exercises dealing with the present perfect tense. English translations are provided for some of the examples. The first exercise provides verb infinitives as cues for the present perfect...
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Verb Forms
This interactive provides the base words of irregular verbs and asks students to type the past and past participle tenses of them in boxes.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Verb Forms
This page explains the five forms of verbs: root, third-person singular,present participle, past, and past participle and provides examples of each.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Present Perfect
A straightforward explanation of how the present perfect tense is formed with a printer-friendly page that is great for note keeping. One free online quiz and test evaluate mastery.
English Page
Englishpage: Irregular Verb Dictionary
An extensive list of irregular verbs, Gives the infinitive, simple past, and past participle. Also includes online flashcards and exercises.
Other
Les Jeux D'orthonet: Interactive French Grammar Exercises
These multilevel French grammar interactive exercises concentrate on agreement of past participles and the like.
University of Texas at Austin
Tex's French Grammar: Passe Compose vs. L'imparfait
This site from Tex's French Grammar provides a very clear and concise explanation of the proper formation and usage of the passe compose and l'imparfait. Lists common verbs and adverbs associated with either of the tenses. Provides good...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs Crossword Puzzle
Online crossword from the Capital Community College that reviews simple past tense and past participles of irregular verbs. Options for seeing hints and doing over the incorrect answers.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture
Colby College provides a large collection of exercises on adjectives, adverbs, numbers, prepositions, clauses, study modules, and more.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Francais Interactif
This full-featured interactive textbook encounter utilizes French speakers in real life scenarios. Well structured for work on grammatical concepts (links to Tex's French Grammar), vocabulary, listening comprehension and exposure to...
Other
Jefferson County School Dist.: Irregular & Helping Verbs
This site has an online slide show offers a drill on forming irregular verbs. One slide of 63 includes information on helping verbs. Last slide has links to some online practice for irregular verbs.
University of Texas at Austin
Tex's French Grammar: Passe Compose of Pronominal Verbs
This site from Tex's French Grammar clearly explains the uses, formation and negation of the passe compose with pronominal verbs, using high quality examples, dialogues, (both written and audio), and interactive exercises.
Other
Kryss Tal: Grammar: Introduction to Grammar
This site provides a very good overview of grammar components. Grammar examples and links are provided.