Year 5 Verb Tenses: Past, Present and Future Worksheet — Level 1 — Practice Set 3 — Answers
Answer sheet with model answers and success criteria for the Year 5 verbs & tenses worksheet.
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Circle past, present or future.
1.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? The dog barked at the cat.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: past
The verb tells us it already happened.
2.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? The baby sleeps a lot.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: present
The verb tells us it happens now (or often).
3.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? She jumped over the log.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: past
The verb tells us it already happened.
4.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? She jumps very high.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: present
The verb tells us it happens now (or often).
5.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? They ate pizza for dinner.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: past
The verb tells us it already happened.
6.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? We will play tomorrow.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: future
will shows the future.
7.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? She will jump into the pool.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: future
will shows the future.
8.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? I like apples.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: present
The verb tells us it happens now (or often).
9.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? We played a game.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: past
The verb tells us it already happened.
10.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? I will see you soon.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: future
will shows the future.
11.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? It will rain tomorrow.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: future
will shows the future.
12.Is this sentence in the past, present or future tense? He will run in the race.
- Apast
- Bpresent
- Cfuture
Answer: future
will shows the future.
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