Past Tense Practice
| Site: | Saylor Academy |
| Course: | ESL002: Intermediate English as a Second Language |
| Book: | Past Tense Practice |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 8:50 AM |
Description
The activities below allow you to find out how well you understand how to form and use the simple past tense and past continuous tense. If you have difficulty forming and using verbs in the past, you may return to review the information above and then try these practice activities again.
Activity 1
Now that we know how to choose between the past simple and continuous to share our thoughts in English, let’s put our knowledge into practice. Try this series of practice activities.
Exercise: Use past tense form of the verbs
Source: Annapurna Madhuri, https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/effectiveenglish/chapter/simple-past/
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Activity 2
Exercise: Drag the words into the boxes using the correct form of verbs, taking hint from the signal words.
Activity 3
Interrogative sentences: Rewrite the following sentences in the interrogative form, as given in the example.
Source: Annapurna Madhuri, https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/effectiveenglish/chapter/simple-past-3/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Activity 4
Negative sentences: Rewrite the following sentences in the negative form, as given in the example.
Activity 5
Choose the correct form of verb to fill in the blanks with suitable forms of verbs given in the bracket.
Activity 6
Rearrange the jumbled words to make meaningful sentences using the correct form of verbs given in bold.