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Verb Tenses

Tenses

Free Verb Tenses practice — find and fix the mistake in the sentence. Grammar game for primary school students.

Years 3–4

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Find the mistakes in the sentences.
 
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Examples in this game

Easy
Change to past tense: Yesterday, they walk into the cave to face the dragon. → Past tense: Yesterday, they walked into the cave to face the dragon. · Change to past tense: Yesterday, he needs some new shoes. → Past tense: Yesterday, he needed some new shoes. · Change to past tense: Yesterday, my brother is in the kitchen. → Past tense: Yesterday, my brother was in the kitchen. · Change to past tense: Yesterday, the children love writing stories. → Past tense: Yesterday, the children loved writing stories. · Change to past tense: They didn't saw any people in the house. → Past tense: They didn't see any people in the house. · Change to past tense: I didn't went to France. → Past tense: I didn't go to France.
Medium
Change to past tense: Without thinking, they hide under the table. → Past tense: Without thinking, they hid under the table. · Change to past tense: They walk into the cave to face the dragon and try to defeat it. → Past tense: They walked into the cave to face the dragon and tried to defeat it. · Change to past tense: He needs some new shoes. The old ones are broken. → Past tense: He needed some new shoes. The old ones were broken. · Change to past tense: My brother is in the kitchen. He makes a sandwich. → Past tense: My brother was in the kitchen. He made a sandwich. · Change to past tense: They walk into the cave to face the dragon. The dragon's teeth are filthy. → Past tense: They walked into the cave to face the dragon. The dragon's teeth were filthy. · Change to past tense: Earlier, my brother is in the shop. He needs some new shoes. → Past tense: Earlier, my brother was in the shop. He needed some new shoes.
Hard
Change to past tense: They walk into the cave to face the dragon. The dragon’s teeth are filthy. → Past tense: They walked into the cave to face the dragon. The dragon’s teeth were filthy. · Change to past tense: Earlier, my brother is in the shop. He needs some new shoes. → Past tense: Earlier, my brother was in the shop. He needed some new shoes. · Change to past tense: Earlier, when they arrive, they carry a heavy bag. → Past tense: Earlier, when they arrived, they carried a heavy bag. · Change to past tense: He skips with a rope and runs around with her friends. → Past tense: He skipped with a rope and ran around with her friends. · Change to past tense: I want to go to shops later. There is a sale on. → Past tense: I wanted to go to shops later. There was a sale on. · Change to past tense: The flower becomes wilted without water. You need to water it every day. → Past tense: The flower became wilted without water. You needed to water it every day.

Curriculum fit

Grammar Part of Rollama's Tenses quest, used with Years 3–4.

More from this quest

The Egg Game - Tenses Pick a Pair - Irregular Past Tenses Pick a Pair - Perfect Tenses Scoop Snatcher - Past Present Future

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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Past Tenses!

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Rules: The sentences need to be in the past tense. Select the words which should be changed.

Medal target: 7 points

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