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Past Tense of y Verbs

Tense Transformation

Free Past Tense of y Verbs practice — match the pairs before time runs out. Spelling game for primary school students.

Years 4–9

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Teacher tip

Examples in this game

Easy
buy → bought · cry → cried · dry → dried · fly → flew · fry → fried · pay → paid
Medium
envy → envied · obey → obeyed · pity → pitied · pry → pried · bury → buried · copy → copied
Hard
betray → betrayed · comply → complied · deploy → deployed · employ → employed · modify → modified · notify → notified

Curriculum fit

Grammar Part of Rollama's Tense Transformation quest, used with Years 4–9.

More from this quest

Arrange a Rama - Third Person Singular Orderama - Future Tense Orderama - Present Perfect Sentences Pick a Pair - Future Perfect Tense

Teaching this next week? Set this game as homework, see which children need the tricky cases again, and let Rollama auto-build their retry playlist.

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Irregular Past Tenses

 60s

Match up the pairs of words. How many rounds can you complete in one minute?

Medal target: 48 points

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