Unit 1.1.2 - Verb Tense

Simple Past Tense

The most common past tense, often ending in “d” or “ed” (e.g., “walked”)

Have, Has, or Had

A past participle is a verb tense composed of the past tense of the verb plus _______________.

Adjective

When a past participle modifies a noun (e.g., “bruised knees”), it acts like an ____________.

Past Perfect Tense

A past tense that describes an action that took place in a more distant past by pairing “had” with a verb (e.g., “I had printed the paper”).

Past Perfect

When a sentence describes multiple past events, use the _____________ tense to describe the oldest event.

Tense

To avoid confusing readers, it’s important that all verbs in a sentence use the same __________ to clearly mark the time frame.

Shifting

A common writing error is beginning with a verb in one tense but “_______” into another tense for the next verb.

Transform

Irregular verbs are called “irregular” because instead of using “ed” to show the past tense they _________ entirely.

Present

If the action is happening now, use the _______ tense.

Future

If the action will be later, use the ________ tense.

Simple Past

If the action already happened (and it’s the only past event), use the _________ tense.

Past Perfect Tense

The _________ is useful because it prevents confusion about when different actions in the past took place.