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Business English at Work: Verb Tense, Voice and Mood-Verbals
Demonstrate the various tenses of irregular and regular verbs. The verbs be, do, and have are charted out for the present tense, past tense, and past and present participles. Likewise, many regular verbs are conjugated into present,...
St. Louis Community College
Verb Tenses
Help your pupils keep their simple, perfect, and progressive tenses straight with a reference page. Each verb tense is paired with a definition and at least one sample sentence.
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Correct Uses of the Verb "Be"
Useful for an intermediate to advanced ESL class, as well as a standard Language Arts class, this grammar presentation guides learners through the forms of "be." Slides detailing the present tense singular and plural, as well as past...
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Grammar Lesson Plan: Simple Past vs. Present Perfect
What's the difference between the present perfect and simple past? Have your class practice identifying and using both of these verb tenses through pair activities, whole-class discussion, and a worksheet.
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Modals: Can, May and Will Verbs: Present Tense
Cover can, may, will, and shall with this lesson on using modals in the present tense. Starting off with a warm-up activity, the resource includes a text to analyze, examples of modals, and exercises with answers. The language in the...
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Verb Tense Exercise 17
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, learners answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding present and past tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
University of North Carolina
Verb Tenses
Twelve categories of verbs exist in the future tense, ranging from simple present to future perfect progressive, but only three have a place in academic writing. Those three tenses make up the content of an informational handout that...
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Past Versus Present Perfect
Using this 15 question activity learners practice using the past and present perfect forms of verbs. This would be a great worksheet for use with students in both upper elementary and older grades.
Minnesota Literacy Council
Regular Verbs Simple Present and Simple Past Tenses
Class members listen as the instructor reads pairs of sentences that contain the simple present and simple past tense of the same verbs.
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Verb Tense Exercise 6
In this online interactive grammar skills learning exercise, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and present perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Verb Tenses
Why is it so important to have consistent verb tense when writing? Discuss some of the implications with your middle and high school classes. Examples are provided, and both incorrect and corrected sentences are shown. There's a lot of...
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Verb Tense Practice Worksheet
Reinforce the indicative, negative and interrogative verb tenses with this straightforward worksheet. Middle schoolers use three parts of a sentence to construct new sentences in each verb tense. A reference section provides exmaples of...
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Verb Review 1 (Present/Past)
Using a fill-in-the-blank format learners explore the use of present/past/future verbs. This 41-question activity upper elementary and older students in an ESL class would get a good background in the use of verbs.
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Verb Review 1 (Mixed Including Passive)
Cut this sheet in two, and provide each learner with two days worth of bell-ringer activities. English language learners (or those studying English grammar) complete a short activity that has them complete a paragraph using the passive...
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Past versus Present Perfect
In this past and present perfect review worksheet, students fill in the 20 blanks in 15 questions with the appropriate forms of the verbs listed in parentheses.
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Dropped Endings and Verb Tense Worksheet 1
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite a paragraph changing it from present tense to past tense. Students check for omitted endings from nouns as well.
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Subject-Verb Agreement
In this grammar learning exercise, students use the correct present -tense form of the verb in parentheses that makes twenty sentences grammatically correct.
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Verb Tense Review
In this verb tense review worksheet, students learn about different verb tenses: simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, and simple future. They answer 32...
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Present, Present Progressive and Past Tense Practice
This activity, which was designed for use in an ESL setting, focuses on the present, present progressive and past verb tense. The types of sentences used would be appropriate for older students. There are 20 questions.
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Mastering the Present Perfect Tense
You have found a solid resource for covering the present perfect tense. Starting with explanation and examples, this resource moves quickly into a series of exercises that target specific elements of the present perfect tense. Scroll to...
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Irregular Verbs 4
In this grammar instructional activity, learners supply the correct verb form from the verb in parentheses that makes twenty sentences grammatically correct.
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Time words/Tenses Review
In this time words and verb tenses worksheet, students respond to 42 questions that require them to correct the verb tense and time word mistakes in the 42 sentences.
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Past Tense 4
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences in present tense followed by sentences in past tense in which the verb is omitted. Students write the verb in the past tense to complete 14 exercises.
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Learning Verbs 1
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a table of plural and singular verb tenses for the following verbs: be, go, do, have, see, and eat. The verb tenses to be filled in include: present simple, past simple, present continuous,...