Verb Tenses Worksheets
Tense places an action in time. These worksheets start with sorting sentences into yesterday, today and tomorrow, and build to the perfect tenses and to finding the one sentence in a paragraph where the tense slips.
- Grades
- Grade 1 – Grade 8
- Worksheets
- 5
- Topics
- 7
Topics in verb tenses
- Present Tense — Grade 1 to Grade 5
Simple present verbs, including the -s ending on a third-person singular subject.
- Past Tense — Grade 1 to Grade 5
Forming the regular past tense with -ed, including the spelling changes that come with it.
- Irregular Past Tense — Grade 2 to Grade 6
Past forms of common irregular verbs, which change their spelling instead of adding -ed.
- Future Tense — Grade 2 to Grade 6
Writing about what has not happened yet using will and going to.
- Progressive Tenses — Grade 3 to Grade 7
Ongoing action built from a form of be plus the -ing participle, in past, present and future.
- Perfect Tenses — Grade 5 to Grade 8
Have, has and had plus a past participle, and what each perfect tense says about when an action finished.
- Keeping Tense Consistent — Grade 4 to Grade 8
Finding and repairing an unnecessary shift of tense inside a passage.
Any topic on this list can be built for any grade it covers — make the sheet you need.