Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Eight, Lesson Two: Verb Tense

  1. cake
  2. lake
  3. shake
  4. brake
  5. fake
  6. stake
  7. period
  8. table
  9. rows
  10. column
  1. elements
  2. chemical
  3. property
  4. express
  5. pouch
  6. mail
  7. carried
  8. stage
  9. post
  10. office
Verb Tense

As you know, verbs can take various forms. Consider these examples: 


	jump		jumps		jumped		jumping
	crawl		crawls		crawled		crawling
	bury		buries		buried		burying
	carry		carries		carried		carrying
	punch		punches		punched		punching
	run		runs		ran		running
	take 		takes		took		taking
	get		gets		got		getting
	go		goes		went		going
Here is the verb crawl used in each form in sentences: 

	They crawl through the mud.

	He crawls through the mud.

	They crawled through the mud.

	He is crawling through the mud.
Since we have talked about adding -ing and -ed to verbs, we will concentrate in this lesson about adding -s to verbs. We have also talked about pluralizing nouns and it just so happens that the same basic rules apply: 

	1. DROP THE Y AND ADD -IES
	    Use on words which end with Y like: carry/carries, hurry/hurries
	    But not on words like: play/plays, annoy/annoys

	2. ADD -ES
	    Use on words which end with ss, ch, x, or sh: reach/reaches, fix/fixes
	    NOTE: You must add -es to go.

	3. JUST ADD -S
	    Use on most words like: jump/jumps, drink/drinks

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