Irregular past tense · Learn the idea
Irregular past tense
To tell what already happened, we often use a past-tense verb.
Regular verbs use an -ed ending: play → played, like → liked. Irregular verbs have forms we need to learn: go → went.
Learn each pair in a sentence. Some stay the same: today I cut paper; yesterday I cut paper.
go → went; eat → ate
Yesterday, we went to the lake and ate our lunch.
see → saw; have → had
We saw a duck. It had a bright feather.
write → wrote; cut → cut
I wrote a note and cut a paper star.
Remember: For these verbs, learn the past form instead of adding -ed.
Grown-up guide
Begin with affirmative simple past sentences. Was/were, questions, negatives with did, and more irregular verbs can follow in later lessons. Do not mark a child’s dialect as a personal fault; explain that these are the standard written forms being practised.
Allow about 10 minutes, with breaks as needed. Listen to the explanation and look at the child’s own sentences. Correct choices alone do not show mastery. Writing is reviewed together, not automatically marked.
A useful starting point: verbs, tenses.
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