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Verb Tenses: Past, Present and Future

  • Grade 4
  • English Language Arts
  • 1 min 2 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC4-EN-20

One sentence, "Mia plants a seed.", is placed on a timeline under now, then changed to "Mia planted a seed." under before now and "Mia will plant a seed." under later. The video shows how many verbs add ed for the past and how will can go before the verb for the future, and ends with the recap that a verb's tense shows when: past, present or future.

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The question this lesson answers

How does a verb show when something happens?

Here is a sentence: Mia plants a seed.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How does a verb show when something happens?

Here is a sentence: Mia plants a seed.

The verb is plants, the action word.

Think of time as a line with the past, the present and the future.

The tense of a verb shows when the action happens.

Now, in the present, Mia plants a seed.

Before now, in the past, Mia planted a seed.

Many verbs add the letters e and d for the past, so plant becomes planted.

Later, in the future, Mia will plant a seed.

One common way to show the future is to put will before the verb.

Planted, plants and will plant show the same action at three different times.

A verb's tense shows when the action happens: in the past, the present or the future.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 4

English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: sentence structure and grammarBC4-EN-20

Previous: Parts of Speech: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and AdverbsNext: Subject-Verb Agreement: Make the Verb Match Its Subject

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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