Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
5.11.d
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
(i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
(ii) past tense of irregular verbs;
(iii) collective nouns;
(iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
(v) conjunctive adverbs;
(vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
(vii) pronouns, including indefinite;
(viii) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences;
(ix) capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;
(x) italics and underlining for titles and emphasis and punctuation marks, including quotation marks in dialogue and commas in compound and complex sentences; and
(xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
5th Grade Writing - Irregular Verbs Lesson
Irregular Verbs
Irregular Verbs
Irregularverbs do not follow the regular patterns for forming tenses, especially in the pasttense.
Regular past tense verbs end in -ed.
I add the numbers every day. (present)
I added the numbers yesterday. (past)
Irregularverbs do not follow this pattern!
Example:
Example:
The past tense forms of irregular verbs must be memorized!