Use past-tense and present-tense verbs consistently within a piece
Exercise
Difficulty 3
~3 min
eng.g1.s.ex_36
Convert To Past
Prompt
Rewrite in past tense: 'I walk to school. I see a bird. I run home.'
M-1-S-EX-36
Chart
Three-pair past-tense visual: walk/walked icons (foot mid-step → completed walk), see/saw (eye → blinked eye), run/ran (running figure → seated figure post-run). Color-coded regular blue, irregular red.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
exact string
value
I walked to school. I saw a bird. I ran home.
allow variant
- I walked to school. I saw a bird, and I ran home.
Hints
- walk → walked (regular -ed).
- see → saw (irregular). run → ran (irregular).
Misconceptions to watch
- seed/runned (over-regularization)
- Mixed tenses
Used in lessons