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Past Tense Test Regular Verbs: Teacher-Created Worksheets

This document contains a sample past tense test with two main sections - one on regular verbs and one on irregular verbs. The regular verb section contains a listening exercise to identify the correct past tense ending (-ed, -t, -id). The irregular verb section contains exercises to identify the past tense forms of example irregular verbs, form negative sentences, answer questions, and form questions about given statements. The test assesses abilities related to regular and irregular past tense verb forms in English.

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Past Tense Test Regular Verbs: Teacher-Created Worksheets

This document contains a sample past tense test with two main sections - one on regular verbs and one on irregular verbs. The regular verb section contains a listening exercise to identify the correct past tense ending (-ed, -t, -id). The irregular verb section contains exercises to identify the past tense forms of example irregular verbs, form negative sentences, answer questions, and form questions about given statements. The test assesses abilities related to regular and irregular past tense verb forms in English.

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AzarGrammar.com Teacher-Created Worksheets Basic English Grammar 3e: Ch.

Past Tense Test

Regular verbs
All regular verbs end in –ed, but can have three different sounds. This section of the test
will assess your listening skills and ability to identify the correct ending sound.

Listen to the verbs carefully as the teacher speaks. Complete each sentence with the correct
form of the verb. Then mark the correct ending sound (d, t, id) on the chart.

1. When Ms. Cohen awoke from a good night’s sleep, she (walk) d t id
__________ to the bathroom.
2. She (look) _________ in the mirror.
3. Oh, my! She was (frighten) _____________ by what she saw.
4. Her face was (cover) ____________ in purple and green spots.
5. Ms. Cohen quickly (call) ___________ the doctor.
6. The doctor said she (need) _______________ to come in to the
office right away.
7. At the doctor’s office, both the nurse and the doctor (examine)
_________ Ms. Cohen’s face.
8. They were both so (surprise) ______________. No one had ever
had this kind of rash
9. Ms. Cohen’s doctor (call) ____________ a skin specialist.
10. He said if Ms. Cohen (want) _________ to look normal, she
would have to stop eating pickles and blueberries at the same
time.

Irregular Verbs
Each irregular verb takes a different form in the past tense—that’s what makes it irregular.
This section of the test will be divided into several parts to assess your ability to identify
the correct verb form in affirmative and negative sentences, as well as your ability to
construct/answer questions.

Part 1: What’s the past tense?

Go _____ Take ______ Eat _______ Sleep ________ leave ________


Put _____ Have ______ Buy _______ Know ________Be __________

Part 2: Change the verb to the correct form

1. Ms. Dubman _______ the bus to school this morning (take)


2. The students ________ around the classroom yesterday (run)
3. When the weather was cold, everyone _________indoors (stay)
4. The boss ________ his employee, “you’re fired.” (tell)
5. Laura ________ frightened when she moved to the Prairie. (be)

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Part 3: Change the sentence to negative

1. The students studied for the test.


_________________________________________

2. Tom thought his best friend was lying to him.


_______________________________________________

3. Ms. Cohen drove her car too fast.


__________________________________________________

4. Mary swam faster than the other people on the team.

___________________________________________________

Part 4: Answer the question

1. What time did you get up?

2. Where did you put your pencil?

3. How many students were absent yesterday?

4. Did the girls speak to the boys in the hall? (answer Yes . . . .)

5. Why did you come to America?

Part 5: Make a question about the words in bold print.

1. __________________________________________
(I wrote a letter to my penpal.)

2. __________________________________________________
(The books cost $5.00 each. )

3. __________________________________________________________
(Maria spoke to her boyfriend last night.)

4. _____________________________________________________________
Many of the students came from El Salavador.

5. ________________________________________________________________
(She stole the cookies because she was hungry.)

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