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Irregular Past Tense

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This learning exercise provides extensive experience with the past tense of the verbs begin, drink, ring, sink, sing, and swim. Your young grammarians write the past tense form of each one, use the past tense of each verb in a complete sentence, answer six questions using the past tense form, and rewrite six statements into information questions. 

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verbs, parts of speech, the irregular past tense, verb tenses

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irregular past tense verbs, verb tenses, verbs, english language arts
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2nd - 4th
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English Language Arts
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Common Core

L.2.1.a L.2.1.d

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