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Pbs Learning Media: When to Use the Past Tense for Irregular Verbs Unit PlanPbs Learning Media: When to Use the Past Tense for Irregular Verbs Unit Plan
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Pbs Learning Media: When to Use the Past Tense for Irregular Verbs

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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 consistent pattern. [0:36]

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irregular verbs, verb tenses, verbs

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2nd - 6th
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English Language Arts
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Independent Practice
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Common Core

L.2.1.d L.3.1.d

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