Class 3 English Tenses and Writing Worksheet
Class 3 English · Tenses, plurals and sentence writing · 62 questions with answers
Tense, plurals and articles - the three things that make writing look correct or careless, and all three are pattern work rather than memory work. The irregular cases are the ones worth knowing by heart, and they are called out separately here rather than mixed in.
- Change a verb from present to past tense, including common irregulars.
- Form plurals, including the -es and irregular cases.
- Use a, an and the correctly in a sentence.
Exercise 1 of 5 · 16 questions
Write the past tense.
Write the answer · Warm-up
Here’s one done for you
walk → walked. Most verbs just add -ed. But go → went, eat → ate, run → ran, write → wrote and come → came follow no rule at all - those are the irregulars, and they simply have to be learned. Notice the first three on this list are regular and the last five are not.
- 1)walk
- 2)play
- 3)jump
- 4)go
- 5)eat
- 6)run
- 7)write
- 8)come
- 9)talk
- 10)carry
- 11)stop
- 12)see
- 13)take
- 14)buy
- 15)drink
- 16)sing
Answers
- 1) walked
- 2) played
- 3) jumped
- 4) went
- 5) ate
- 6) ran
- 7) wrote
- 8) came
- 9) talked
- 10) carried
- 11) stopped
- 12) saw
- 13) took
- 14) bought
- 15) drank
- 16) sang
Exercise 2 of 5 · 12 questions
Rewrite each sentence in the past tense.
Write the answer · Guided
- 1)I walk to school.
- 2)She eats an apple.
- 3)They play in the garden.
- 4)He goes to the market.
- 5)We drink milk every morning.
- 6)The bell rings at nine.
- 7)She sings in the school choir.
- 8)I write a letter to my grandmother.
- 9)They take the bus to school.
- 10)He buys vegetables on Sunday.
- 11)The children run in the field.
- 12)Amma cooks rice for us.
Answers
- 1) I walked to school.
- 2) She ate an apple.
- 3) They played in the garden.
- 4) He went to the market.
- 5) We drank milk every morning.
- 6) The bell rang at nine.
- 7) She sang in the school choir.
- 8) I wrote a letter to my grandmother.
- 9) They took the bus to school.
- 10) He bought vegetables on Sunday.
- 11) The children ran in the field.
- 12) Amma cooked rice for us.
Exercise 3 of 5 · 16 questions
Write the plural.
Write the answer · Practice
Here’s one done for you
book → books, but box → boxes. Words ending in x, s, ch or sh add -es because 'boxs' is unsayable. Words ending in a consonant plus y change to -ies (baby → babies). And child → children, man → men, leaf → leaves break the rules entirely.
- 1)book
- 2)box
- 3)baby
- 4)child
- 5)leaf
- 6)bus
- 7)man
- 8)city
- 9)brush
- 10)story
- 11)knife
- 12)foot
- 13)watch
- 14)tooth
- 15)mouse
- 16)sheep
Answers
- 1) books
- 2) boxes
- 3) babies
- 4) children
- 5) leaves
- 6) buses
- 7) men
- 8) cities
- 9) brushes
- 10) stories
- 11) knives
- 12) feet
- 13) watches
- 14) teeth
- 15) mice
- 16) sheep (no change)
Exercise 4 of 5 · 12 questions
Fill in a, an or the.
Fill in the blank · Practice
Here’s one done for you
'I saw ___ elephant' → an, because elephant begins with a vowel sound. Use 'the' when there is only one of something (the sun, the moon) or when we both know which one is meant.
- 1)I saw ___ elephant at the zoo.
- 2)She has ___ new bicycle.
- 3)___ sun rises in the east.
- 4)He ate ___ orange.
- 5)There is ___ book on the table.
- 6)___ moon is bright tonight.
- 7)We waited for ___ hour.
- 8)She is ___ honest girl.
- 9)I need ___ umbrella.
- 10)He is ___ university student.
- 11)___ Ganga flows through Varanasi.
- 12)Would you like ___ egg?
Answers
- 1) an
- 2) a
- 3) The
- 4) an
- 5) a
- 6) The
- 7) an
- 8) an
- 9) an
- 10) a
- 11) The
- 12) an
Exercise 5 of 5 · 6 questions
Write one sentence using each word.
Write the answer · Challenge
- 1)yesterday
- 2)because
- 3)beautiful
- 4)carefully
- 5)suddenly
- 6)although
Answers
- 1) Answers will differ. A correct answer is any complete sentence using the word properly - e.g. 'Yesterday I went to my grandmother's house.'
- 2) e.g. 'I was late because the bus did not come.'
- 3) e.g. 'The garden looked beautiful in the morning.'
- 4) e.g. 'She carried the glass carefully.'
- 5) e.g. 'Suddenly the lights went out.'
- 6) e.g. 'Although it was raining, we walked to school.'
While your child works
- Separate the regular from the irregular explicitly. Adding -ed and -s covers most cases; went, ate, children and men follow no rule and are pure memory. Mixing the two teaches a child to distrust the rule.
- For articles, 'an' goes before a vowel SOUND rather than a vowel letter. It is worth saying aloud - 'an hour' is correct even though hour starts with h.
- The final writing exercise has no fixed answers. Mark for whether the sentence is complete and uses the word properly, not against the examples.