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Contrasting Past Tenses: Preterite and Imperfect
Contrasts the usage of two past tense Spanish verb forms. This site provides the functions and uses of the preterite and the imperfect. It also provides excellent examples.
abcteach
Abc Teach: Verb Skill Sheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides worksheets to use with learners explaining the different types of verbs and how to use them. There is one five page mini-unit on simple present, past and future tenses. Also included are a cut...
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.
English Club
English Club: Basic Tenses
Notes and examples of verb tense including past, present, future, active, passive, normal, intensive, continuous, perfect, and continuous perfect.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Imperfect Subjunctive
This Spanish grammar exercise provides excellent practice conjugating verbs in the past subjunctive tense in verb charts. Fifty different infinitives give the student plenty of practice with conjugations of the imperfect subjunctive....
Language Guide
Language Guide: El Pasado, El Futuro, El Condicional
The past tense, the future tense and the conditional tense are modeled and explained with links to interactive practice activities where students can see and hear the verb conjugations.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: El Preterito Formas (Part 2)
These exercises review irregular verbs, stem-changers, and spelling changes in the preterite tense. Conjugate verbs to match the subject. Answers may be checked and corrected.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Understanding the Ed Ending
This unit focuses on the -ed ending; it offers 15 pages of information and practices about the -ed ending. These explain the uses of the ending including in past tense, perfect tense, certain adjectives, passive voice, and clauses. It...
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.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Si Clauses With the Imperfect
This site from the Colby College provides a great explanation of "if" clauses and the imperfect tense. The exercise provides great practice with the imperfect past. Answers may be checked and corrected.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Helping and Modal Auxiliary Verbs
A helping and modal auxiliary verb site from the Capital Community College. Use this site as a reference tool when learning about modal auxiliary verbs.
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Esl Review: Past Tense Irregular Verbs Quiz
A quiz on using the past tense of irregular verbs is found at this site. Eighteen questions to challenge your knowledge. When finished, check your answers by clicking "Check Your Answers" at the bottom of the page.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Tense Irregular
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students to understand and spell irregular verbs (e.g, go/went).
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Bowdoin College: Spanish Tools Grammar Online Book: Spanish Stem Changing Verbs
Review stem-changing verbs such as pedir or dormir. Provides the present tense forms as well as the gerund, subjunctive, past subjunctive and the preterite. Also provides a list of similar verbs. Excellent review and resource.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Preterite and Imperfect (Part 1)
Great exercise for practicing the preterite and imperfect tenses. Choose the correct form of a verb to complete sentences that tell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Immediate feedback corrects the answer and gives the reason...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Preterite and Imperfect (Part 2)
Great exercise for practicing the preterite and imperfect tenses. Provide the correct form of verb infinitives that complete the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Immediate feedback corrects the answer. Correlates to another...
Better English Lessons
Better English: Irregular Verbs Quiz
Ten questions to test your knowledge of irregular verbs. The base form is given, and you are to select the past tense for these verbs.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Ven Conmigo; The Past Subjunctive in Contrary to Fact Si Clauses
Practice your command of the past subjunctive in contrary-to-fact si clauses, in Spanisn, in this interactive exercise from the Holt Rinehart Winston on-line Ven conmigo, Spanish resource.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Preterite vs Imperfect Part Iii
This site is an introduction to verbs that change meaning according to which past tense is applied, preterite or imperfect. Examples in English and Spanish illustrate the change of meaning. A quiz at the end of the lesson tests the...
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.
Fun Brain
Funbrain: Grammar Bees
Play this grammar game to learn more about present tense verbs (level 1) and past tense verbs (level 2). Win by choosing the correct verbs to complete fifteen sentences.
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.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Preterite Part 3
An online introduction to stem-changing verbs in the preterite tense. A quiz at the end of the lesson tests the student's mastery of these conjugations.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Imperfect Part I
Excellent introductory lesson to the regular conjugations of the imperfect tense and the main rules that govern its usage. Examples in Spanish and English illustrate specific rules. A quiz at the end of the lesson tests the student's...