• 1 TRY OUT LANGUAGE

• 2 LEARN GRAMMAR

• 3 APPLY ON YOUR OWN

Use Past Tense Verbs

The tense of a verb tells when an action happens.

• • Add -ed to most verbs to show that an action already happened.

• • Use special past tense forms for irregular verbs.

  Present	Past	Example in the Past
  do, does	did	I did my research on pyramids.
  go, goes	went	I went to the library.
  feel	felt	At first I felt tired.
  know	knew	I knew nothing about pyramids.
  see	saw	Then I saw pictures of them.
  tell	told	“This is interesting,” I told myself.

Practice Together

Say each sentence. Choose the past tense form of the verb.

• 1. Last year, my parents (did/do) something amazing.

• 2. They (go/went) to Egypt.

• 3. Mom and Dad (felt/feel) so excited.

• 4. They (see/saw) some pyramids.

• 5. They (told/tell) us all about them.

• 6. We never (know/knew) that pyramids could be so interesting.

• 7. Mom and Dad (told/tell) us that they want to go back to Egypt some day.

Try It!

Say each sentence. Write the past tense form of the verb on a card. Then hold up the card as you say the sentence with the past tense verb.

• 8. The professor (went/goes) to Egypt every year.

• 9. He (does/did) research on life in the past.

• 10. He (saw/sees) bones and old buildings.

• 11. He (went/goes) to many interesting places.

• 12. He (felt/feels) excited about his job.

• 13. He (knows/knew) a lot about life long ago.

• 14. He (tells/told) us all about it.

• 15. We (saw/see) his photos, too.

Scientists went to this site to study bones.