Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Two, Lesson Three: Verbs

  1. snare
  2. glare
  3. rare
  4. square
  5. share
  6. boysenberry
  7. strawberry
  8. huckleberry
  9. raspberry
  10. blackberry
  1. blueberry
  2. fruit
  3. peach
  4. cherry
  5. grape
  6. agriculture
  7. wild
  8. rice
  9. irrigate
  10. aquatic
Verbs

Verbs name actions which can be taken by some object. Sometimes all we have to do to change a verb from present to past tense is add -ed. But sometimes it's more complicated than that. Here are the rules for adding -ed to a verb. 


	1. DROP THE Y AND ADD -IED
	    Use on words which end with Y like: carry/carried, hurry/hurried
	    But not on words like: play/played, annoy/annoyed

	2. DOUBLE THE FINAL CONSONANT AND ADD -ED
	    Some words required that you double the final consonant and
	    then add -ed: drag/dragged, stab/stabbed, slam/slammed

	3. ADD -ED
	    With most words you can just add -ed: climb/climbed, kick/kicked
	    Some words you just add -d: tie/tied, trade/traded, race/raced
	    Also on words which end with ss, ch, x, or sh: reach/reached, fix/fixed
There are also irregular verbs such as: 

	break/broke		build/built			tear/tore

	sing/sang		write/wrote			go/went

	swim/swam		sit/sat				hold/held

	eat/ate			grow/grew			stand/stood

	fall/fell		take/took			read/read

	buy/bought		spread/spread			run/ran

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