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Unit 3 Week 5—Irregular Verbs

The Great Kapok Tree. Unit 3 Week 5—Irregular Verbs. Irregular Verbs. Usually you add – ed to a verb to show past tense. Irregular verbs change tense in other ways. Present Tense Men come here. Past Tense Men came here. Past with has, have, or had Men have come here.

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Unit 3 Week 5—Irregular Verbs

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  1. The Great Kapok Tree Unit 3 Week 5—Irregular Verbs

  2. Irregular Verbs • Usually you add –ed to a verb to show past tense. • Irregular verbs change tense in other ways. Present Tense Men come here. Past Tense Men came here. Past with has, have, or had Men have come here.

  3. Irregular Verbs • Irregular Verbs have a special form when they are used with has, have, or had. • Examples are listed on the next slide.

  4. What is the past tense of each irregular verb? • go • leave • hit • fall • come • take

  5. Choose the correct past form of the verb in ( ). • I have ( read) a book about animals communicate. • We (see) a movie about a gorilla that knew sign language. • Our teacher has (tell) us about her talking parrot. • An expert on dolphins (come) to our school.

  6. Continued… • We (hear) a tape recording of whale noises. • My brother has (write) a paper about bird songs. • That paper (take) a long time to complete. • The whole class (go) to the science museum yesterday.

  7. Complete the sentences below with words from the box. Put each verb in the past tense with has. Have, or had. Now I have ______ everything! If anyone had _____ me this, I probably wouldn’t have believed them. Here’s what happened. I had ______ soccer practice Monday and was walking home. On the corner of Spring and Elm, this black cat ______ up to me and looked me straight in the eyes. “I have _______ waiting to speak to you,” the cat said. As you can imagine, I nearly ______ over. It must have________ me a few seconds to get over my surprise. When I looked again, the cat had vanished. I have _______ about this event in my journal.

  8. Test Prep—Choose the letter of the verb that correctly completes each sentence. • Europeans have _____ in America for over 400 years. • Been B. be C. ben D. bin • The first settlers who _____ here were astonished. • Come B. came C. comed D. coming • They ______ endless forests. A. Seen B. seed C. sawed D. saw

  9. Continued… • They ____ the cries of wolves and eagles. • heared B. herd C. heard D. hearing • Families ______ the coast and traveled west. • Leaved B. leafed C. leave D. left • They had ______ across prairies and mountains. A. Gone B. goed C. went D. goned

  10. Review--Choose the verb form in ( ) that correctly completes each sentence. • Late last night I (heard, hearing) a scratching noise. • “Who has (came, come) to see me at this hour? I wondered. • The door opened, but I (saw, seen) no one. • On the floor (were, be) a mousetrap and a tiny note. • I picked up the note and (read, readed) it.

  11. Choose the correct past form of the verb in ( ). • Long ago a huge meteor (fall) to Earth. • It (hit) our planet near Mexico. • The meteor (leave) many creatures extinct. • This (is/are) a terrible disaster. • The sky (go) dark. • It (take) millions of years for Earth to recover.

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