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What Happened on Moving Day

Sort regular and irregular verbs, write past tense forms such as carried, went and thought, and fix verb mistakes in moving day sentences.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.3.1.d

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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 3
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students sort verbs as regular or irregular in the past tense.
  • Students form the past tense of regular and irregular verbs.
  • Students choose the correct past tense verb to use in a sentence.

How to use

Review that regular verbs add -ed in the past tense and irregular verbs change in other ways. Let students do the sheet alone, then check the answers together.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.1.d

Form and use regular and irregular verbs.

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What Happened on Moving Day

Form and use regular and irregular past tense verbs.

Regular or irregular?

A regular verb adds -ed or -d to tell about the past (jump, jumped). An irregular verb changes in another way (run, ran).

Nadia's family moved to a new apartment last Saturday. Every sentence on this sheet tells about moving day.
1.
Think about how each verb tells about the past. Sort the verbs.
findpushpacksenddrivesleeplifttape
Regular: adds -ed or -dIrregular: changes another way
2.
Match each irregular verb to its past tense.
  1. hold
  2. ride
  3. take
  4. give
  5. fall
  1. A. gave
  2. B. fell
  3. C. took
  4. D. held
  5. E. rode

Write the past tense

Write the past tense of the verb named in each question. Watch the spelling.

3.
Write the past tense of the verb carry.

Dad   the heavy lamp up the stairs.

4.
Write the past tense of the verb go.

Early in the morning, we   to our new apartment.

5.
Write the past tense of the verb make.

My little brother   a sign for his bedroom door.

6.
Write the past tense of the verb eat.

We   dinner on the floor because the table was still in the truck.

7.
Write the past tense of the verb stop.

The moving truck   in front of our building.

8.
Write the past tense of the verb think.

I   the boxes would never end!

Use verbs correctly

Read each sentence carefully.

9.
Which sentence uses the correct past tense of bring?
  • A. Mom bringed the boxes inside.
  • B. Mom brung the boxes inside.
  • C. Mom brang the boxes inside.
  • D. Mom brought the boxes inside.
10.
Which sentence has a mistake in its verb?
  • A. We found my old teddy bear in a box.
  • B. Uncle Raj builded a fort from the boxes.
  • C. The movers lifted the couch up the stairs.
  • D. I slept on a mattress on the floor.
11.
This sentence has two irregular past tense verbs. Underline both of them.

AfterMompackedthelamps,wesatinthetruckandmetournewneighbor.

12.
Write a past tense verb from the word bank in each blank. One word is not used.
Word bank: hung · wrote · swam · waved · swept

Before we left, I   goodbye to the neighbors on our old street.
Mom   the floor of the empty kitchen.
I   my name on every box for my room.
Dad   our family photo on the new wall.

13.
Write two sentences about a time you helped someone. Use one regular past tense verb and one irregular past tense verb. Underline both verbs.

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