Form the Perfect Tenses

Start with the forms table, especially the irregular participles. Then use the time clue sheet before reading The Big Recital.

Write 8 verbs like swim, freeze and teach in the present perfect, past perfect and future perfect. Each perfect tense is a form of have plus the past participle: has or have for present, had for past and will have for future. The directions on the page read: Write each verb in the present perfect, past perfect and future perfect tense. Follow the gray example row for walk. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade verbs, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with perfect tenses. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Since, for and so far signal present perfect, before or by the time in the past signal past perfect, and by a future time signals future perfect. Choose the Perfect Tense lists these clues.

The past participle of swim is swum, so the perfect forms are has swum, had swum and will have swum.

It shows an action that will have kept going up to a future time, as in By Saturday, Amara will have been preparing for this recital for three months.