1. If you can do it, it is a VERB!

2.  Go  Compare
 Swim  Analyze
 Eat  Interpret
 Follow  Develop
 Drink  Clean
 Listen  Sit
 Fly  Stand
 Believe  Drive

3. TO TELL THAT AN ACTION IS COMPLETED!!!!!!
FINISHED!!! OVER!!!

4.  Verbs used to indicate something happened
at a previous point in time.
 Most verbs in the past tense add “ed” to the
end.
For example: start becomes started
 Some verbs in the past tense are irregular.
They totally change spelling.
For example: wear becomes wore

5.  Create the past tense by adding an “ed” to the
base verb, if it is a regular verb. If it is an
irregular verb, change the verb accordingly.
For example: We create things. (present)
We created things. (past regular)
We drink water. (present)
We drank water. (past irregular)

6. English has two types
of verbs in the past:
-regular
-irregular

7.  Add –ed to most verbs
 Drop the “e” and add “ed” to verbs that end
with “e” (smile= smiled).
 Change the “y” to “i” and add –ed to verbs
that end with a consonant and “y” (carry=
carried, study= studied).
 Double the consonant and add –ed to verbs
that end with one vowel and one consonant
( drag= dragged, stop= stopped).

8. The –ed ending in English has three different
sounds:
t: walked, talked, jumped
d: played, loved, answered
id: invited, waited decided....
*With –id sounding words, there is
another syllable!

9.  walked regular
 studied regular
 taught irregular
 gave irregular
 became irregular
 cried regular
 lived regular
 did irregular

10. Sometimes with irregular
past tense verbs you
have to change the vowel
to make the verb past
tense:
become became
give gave
drive drove
forget
forgot

11.  Phonemically (word sorts)
 Bingo!
 Modeling
 Survey says……
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