Starter quiz
- Fill in the blank. The __________ tells you the tense of a sentence.
- verb ✓
- noun
- adverb
- adjective
- punctuation
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- Which sentence sounds like its tense is correct when you read it out loud?
- Yesterday, you knew the answer to that question. ✓
- Yesterday, you knows the answer to that question.
- Yesterday, you will know the answer to that question.
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- Which tense tells us that the action is yet to happen / has not happened yet?
- 'future tense' ✓
- Which sentence is in the present tense?
- They will catch the ball expertly in the game tomorrow.
- They almost caught the ball in the game last week.
- They catch the ball every time they play. ✓
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- Match the person to the perspective.
- first person⇔I / we ✓
- second person⇔you ✓
- third person⇔he / she / it / they ✓
- Which is the best definition of an auxiliary verb?
- a main verb
- an imperative verb
- an adverb verb
- a helping verb ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which word class carries the tense of a sentence?
- adjective
- adverb
- noun
- verb ✓
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- Which suffix does the main verb in a progressive tense always end with?
- -ing ✓
- -ed
- -ies
- -ly
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- Match each part of a progressive tense sentence with their job.
- auxiliary verb⇔paired with the main verb and tells us the tense ✓
- main verb⇔always ends with -ing and doesn't change when the tense does ✓
- noun⇔the person, place or thing that does the main verb ✓
- punctuation⇔marks the beginning and end of the sentence ✓
- What sort of action does a progressive tense sentence tell us about?
- action that has definitely finished
- action that will never happen
- action that is ongoing over a timeframe ✓
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- Which words tell you that the following sentence is in the progressive future tense? 'Five kangaroos will be visiting the zoo next week.'
- five kangaroos
- next week
- the zoo
- will be ✓
- be visiting
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- Which word tells you that the following sentence is in the progressive past tense? 'I was learning to play the guitar last year.'
- was ✓
- learning
- last
- year
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The verb carries the tense of a sentence.
- The simple tense is a tense that does not make use of an auxiliary verb with the main verb in the past and present.
- The progressive tense is a tense that uses an auxiliary verb from the infinitive 'to be' paired with the main verb.
- The progressive tense denotes ongoing action.
- The main verb in the progressive tense always ends with the -ing suffix.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that any time a word ends with -ing, it is a verb in the progressive tense.
Sometimes, words ending -ing are acting as adjectives. We must look at the word before the word ending in -ing to check if it's a verb.
Keywords
Simple tense - a tense that does not make use of an auxiliary verb in addition to the main verb in the present and past
Auxiliary verb - the helping verb that is always paired with the main verb
Progressive tense - a tense that denotes ongoing action
Infinitive - any verb preceded by the word 'to'
Suffix - a letter or group of letters at the end of a word which creates another word
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