1. Review: What is the Past Tense?

• The past tense tells us about actions that have already happened.
• Regular verbs add -ed for the past tense, but irregular verbs change in unique ways.

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2. Irregular Verbs (Set 3)

• More examples of common irregular verbs and their past tense forms:
  • Give → Gave
  • Grow → Grew
  • Know → Knew
  • Leave → Left
  • Meet → Met
  • Run → Ran
  • Sing → Sang
  • Sit → Sat
  • Speak → Spoke
  • Take → Took

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3. How to Use Irregular Past Tense Verbs

• Irregular verbs change form in the past tense and don’t follow regular patterns.
• Examples:
  • I gave my friend a gift. (Past tense of “give”)
  • The tree grew very tall last year. (Past tense of “grow”)
  • He ran to the store. (Past tense of “run”)

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4. Identifying Irregular Past Tense Verbs

• In sentences, look for the past tense forms that do not end in -ed.
• Examples:
  • We sat at the park. (Not “sitted”)
  • They spoke to the teacher. (Not “speaked”)

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5. Practice: Fill in the Blanks

• Use the correct past tense form of the irregular verb in the blanks:
  1. She _ (meet) her cousin at the playground. → Met
  2. The flowers _ (grow) very quickly. → Grew
  3. He _ (speak) to his teacher. → Spoke

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6. Review Questions

• What is the past tense of “know”? (Answer: Knew)
• What is the past tense of “sing”? (Answer: Sang)
• Can you make a sentence using the past tense of “take”? (Answer: “I took my book to school.”)