Irregular past tense verbs worksheets

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Irregular verbs don't add -ed for the past. They change: go became went, eat became ate.

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  1. 2nd grade

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    Most verbs make their past tense with -ed (jump, jumped), but irregular verbs change instead: go/went, see/saw, eat/ate. Second graders learn the everyday set through practice, choosing the real past form over the tempting -ed guess like "goed."

  2. 3rd grade Core grade

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    Irregular verbs form the past without -ed: teach/taught, catch/caught, fly/flew, swim/swam. Third graders expand their set beyond the everyday verbs and get faster at rejecting overregularized forms like "teached."

  3. 4th grade

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    By 4th grade, the working set includes the harder changes: choose/chose, freeze/froze, tear/tore, swing/swung. Students also start separating the plain past from the past participle (wrote vs. written), a distinction that matters once perfect tenses arrive in 5th grade.

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