What 🤔Is The Past🔙 Tense? - Grammar For Kids

The past tense 🔙 is used for actions🏊‍♂️ in a time ⏰ that has already happened.

In this blog, we will learn about 2 types of past tense.

1. Past Simple Tense

2. Past Continuous Tense

Past Simple Tense

We can use the past simple tense to talk🗣 about things that happened at a certain 📍 point in the🔙 past.

To form the past simple tense, we need past tense verbs. Past tense verbs include words like:

• ate 🍽

• played ⛹🏼‍♂️

• ran 🏃🏼‍♀️

• jumped🤾🏼‍♂️

• cooked 🥦 🥬 🥒

• looked 👀

Let's practise

1. The girl👀 watched 📺 TV yesterday.

2. Yesterday, I 🍽 ate🍳🥞 breakfast.

Past Continuous

We can use the past continuous tense to talk about something that was happening🔄 in the past or to say that someone was doing 🚴something in the past.

To form the past continuous tense, we need the words was or were and the verb ending in -ing.

Let's practise

1. Sue was swimming🏊‍♀️ in the pool yesterday.

2. Jane was eating🍦 ice cream in the park 🏞🌳🐇 last week.

Ways to practise the past tense at home:

1. Sticky Note Sort🗒🔀

Use sticky 🗒 notes and write some common past simple tense and past continuous tense verbs on them. Use some 📜paper to draw 2 columns and label them 'past simple' and 'past continuous'. Once you have done this, you can practise sorting 🔀your verbs into the correct✔️ columns.

2. Build A Sentence🚧 🏗

Cut a piece of paper📜 into 10 pieces. On each piece, write a past tense verb. Put each paper into a hat. Without looking🙈, choose a piece of paper and read 📚the word out loud. The first person to make a sentence using the word gets a🎖 point. The person with the most points wins🥇.

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