Grade 2 Fall — Paragraph Structure, Personal Narrative, and Open-Class Parts of Speech
English · GR G2 eng.g2.f.gr.irregular_past_tense_verbs

Use past tense of frequently-occurring irregular verbs (L.2.1.d)

Use was/were, had, said, went, came, saw, made, took, gave, knew, thought, brought, ran, ate, swam, flew, drew, slept, woke, hid, found in writing. 20-verb core set.

Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
14
Typical minutes
45
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
  • eng.g3.f.gr.past_perfect_introduction
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Common misconceptions
  • Over-regularizes ('goed', 'runned', 'eated', 'thinked', 'brang').
  • Double-marks past tense ('wented', 'sawed').

Exercise pool (3)

Diff Stem Type
2 Rewrite each verb in past tense. (1) I go to the store. (2) She sees the bird. (3) We eat lunch. (4) Dad runs fast. (5) I think hard. tense fix
4 Rewrite this paragraph in past tense: 'Today I go to the park. I see my friend. We eat lunch on a bench. I think it is the best day. Mom... rewrite paragraph past
4 Read this paragraph and rewrite any present-tense verb in past tense: 'Yesterday I went to the park. I saw my friend Jay. We eat ice... tense consistency paragraph