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
- 10
- 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 appear for any grade it covers.
Grade 1
All grade 1 worksheets →Grade 2
All grade 2 worksheets →Simple Present Tense Verbs Worksheet — Grade 2
Grade 2 students identify, complete, and choose simple present tense verbs, with a close focus on adding -s for a third-person singular subject.
Forming the Past Tense with -ed — Grade 2
Grade 2 worksheet for recognizing and forming regular past tense verbs with -ed, covering spelling changes like doubling letters and dropping e.
Grade 3
All grade 3 worksheets →Grade 4
All grade 4 worksheets →Grade 5
All grade 5 worksheets →Irregular Past Tense Verbs Worksheet — Grade 5
Grade 5 practice sheet drilling common irregular past tense verbs like swam, threw, and froze through identification, choice, and correction tasks.
Consistent Verb Tense Practice Worksheet — Grade 5
Grade 5 students identify, choose, and correct unnecessary verb tense shifts in sentences using time signals as a guide to consistent tense.
Future Tense With Will and Going To — Grade 5
Practice using will and going to for writing about future events. This Grade 5 worksheet builds identification, error-correction, and sentence-writing skills.
Grade 6
All grade 6 worksheets →Grade 7
All grade 7 worksheets →What is published under verb tenses
Ten verb tenses worksheets are published, covering seven of the seven topics in this skill and written for grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6 and grade 7. Between them they come to 142 questions and 72 ruled lines.
Verb Tenses spans grade 1 to grade 8 across its topic list, which is wider than most single skills — present tense, past tense and irregular past tense sit at different ends of it. A topic's grade range is where a dedicated sheet is still worth printing, not where the idea is first mentioned.
How a verb tenses sheet works
Six question types appear across these sheets — 10 × identify, 7 × rewrite, 6 × multiple choice, 6 × write your own, 5 × fill in the blank and 1 × sort — and no single sheet uses all of them. Each moves from spotting the rule to applying it, so a student who has memorised the wording of the rule and nothing else runs out of road before the last part.
30 rule statements are printed across the set, in a box above the questions rather than assumed from a lesson last week. Altogether a student reads about 2219 words to work through every verb tenses sheet here; the longest single one is Perfect Tenses: Have, Has, and Had Plus Past Participle at 18 questions, against a target of 18 for its grade.
These sit in the recognition, application and analysis bands. Every sheet prints its answer key on a separate page so it can be handed out without one, in black and white, with no account and no watermark.