Tenses for Class 4

  • Ages 9–10
  • 6 questions
  • With answers
  • Read aloud by Leo

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What to know first

Tense tells you when something happens. Present tense is happening now, past tense already happened, and future tense has not happened yet. The verb changes shape to show which one you mean, and "will" is the usual signal for the future.

Questions

  1. Which sentence is in the future tense?

    1. She reads a book.
    2. She read a book.
    3. She will read a book.
    4. She is reading a book.

  2. Change to past tense: "They play cricket."

    1. They plays cricket.
    2. They played cricket.
    3. They playing cricket.
    4. They will play cricket.

  3. Which tense is "I am writing a letter"?

    1. Simple past
    2. Present continuous
    3. Simple future
    4. Past continuous

  4. What is the past tense of "teach"?

    1. teached
    2. taught
    3. teaches
    4. teaching

  5. Choose the correct sentence.

    1. Yesterday I go to the market.
    2. Yesterday I went to the market.
    3. Yesterday I will go to the market.
    4. Yesterday I going to the market.

  6. Which word signals the future tense?

    1. was
    2. will
    3. had
    4. were

Answers and explanations

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  1. She will read a book."Will" shows that the action has not happened yet.
  2. They played cricket.Regular verbs add -ed for the past: play becomes played.
  3. Present continuous"Am writing" shows something happening right now, which is present continuous.
  4. taught"Teach" becomes "taught", an irregular past form.
  5. Yesterday I went to the market."Yesterday" means the past, so the verb must be "went".
  6. will"Will" points to something that has not happened yet.

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