Verb Tenses — Answer Key
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. The children played hide-and-seek in the park yesterday afternoon.
Played is the regular past tense of play — yesterday indicates a past action.
2. Look! The kite is flying higher and higher right now.
Is + flying forms the present progressive tense — "Look!" and "right now" signal a current action.
3. By next Friday, we will have finished all of our homework.
Will have + past participle (will have finished) forms the future perfect tense.
4. The irregular past tense of "write" is wrote.
Write is irregular — its past tense is wrote, not writed.
5. She was singing in the choir when the lights went out.
Was + singing forms the past progressive tense, showing an ongoing past action interrupted by another.
6. They will visit the zoo on their field trip next Tuesday.
Will + base verb (will visit) forms the future tense for a planned upcoming event.
7. The irregular past tense of "begin" is began.
Begin is irregular — its past tense is began, not beginned.
8. Every morning he eats breakfast before brushing his teeth.
Eats is the present tense for a habitual, recurring action (every morning signals a routine).
9. Last winter the pond froze over and we went ice skating.
Freeze is irregular — its past tense is froze, and last winter signals a past event.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
go
→ went
broke
teach
→ taught
thought
think
→ thought
went
break
→ broke
taught
go → went; teach → taught; think → thought; break → broke.