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Irregular Past Tense Verbs for Kids: The Rule Breakers (Grade 1 and Grade 2 English)

🎓 Grade 1 and Grade 2 📖 English ⏱️ 2 min 23 sec Ages 6 to 7

Meet the rule breaking verbs with Luna from DoodleBeez. Children review regular past tense with ed, then learn common irregular verbs like ran, ate, saw and went that change in their own special way. Common Core L.1.1e and L.2.1d.

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Hi, I'm Luna from DoodleBeez. Most verbs follow a simple rule to talk about the past. But some verbs are rule breakers! Today we will learn how to spot them and use them correctly.

First, the rule. For most verbs, add e, d to show it already happened. Today I jump. Yesterday I jumped. Today I play. Yesterday I played. These are called regular verbs.

Rule breakers do not add e, d. They change in a special way. Today I run. Yesterday I ran, not runned. Today I eat. Yesterday I ate, not eated.

Here are more rule breakers you use every day. Go becomes went. See becomes saw. Come becomes came. Sit becomes sat. Say them out loud so they start to sound right.

Some change even more. Think becomes thought. Catch becomes caught. Bring becomes brought. And buy becomes bought. Wow! These sound alike, so practice saying them together.

Let's fix a sentence. Yesterday we goed to the park. Goed sounds funny, right? Go is a rule breaker, so the correct sentence is, yesterday we went to the park.

Now it's your turn. Last night, Sam blank a funny dream. Should it be have, haved or had? Pause and try. The answer is had. Have is a rule breaker, so it changes to had.

Great job! Most verbs add e, d for the past, but rule breakers change in their own way, like ran, ate, went and saw. Practice rule breaker past verbs in the English Lab at doodlebeez.com. See you next time!

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