A Past Perfect Thing: Using Past Perfect Tense

Summary
A lesson on how to use the past perfect tense. It also provides an easy flowchart to help students remember all the verbs, tenses, and principal parts of a verb.

Objectives
• to show students how to change sentences into the past perfect tense;

• to show students how to use a chart to take the mystery out of the verb tenses;

• to assess students? understand of the past perfect tense.

Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
Verbs are the action words in a sentence. Verbs show action or state of being.
Each verb has three main parts. They are:

1. present,
2. past
3. past participle.

Although it might sound confusing, it is really very simple.

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