1. Verbs
second grade

2. Verbs. What is a verb?
 A verb is a word which describes the action in a
sentence (the doing word)
Examples
I play football.
They skip quickly.
We eat spaghetti.
Bob is seven today.

3. Verb Tenses
 Verb tenses describe WHEN the action is
happening.
 PRESENT (it’s happening NOW.)
 PAST (it’s ALREADY happened.)

4. Present tense to past tense.
 The following sentences are written in the present tense. Try
changing them to the past tense by putting Yesterday at the
beginning of each.
 I eat spaghetti.
 They skip quickly.
 Bob is seven.
 I play football.
How have the verbs changed?

5. How did you do?
 Yesterday I ate spaghetti.
 Yesterday they skipped quickly.
 Yesterday Bob was seven.
 Yesterday I played football.
(Did you remember to double the consonant in skipped?)

6. Past to present
These sentences are in the past.
Change them to the present by putting today at the front of
each.
 Sarah felt hot.
 The cow jumped over the moon.
 John sat outside in the garden.
 The mouse ran up the clock.

7. How did you do?
 Today Sarah feels hot.
 Today the cow jumps over the moon.
 Today John sits outside in the garden.
 Today the mouse runs up the clock.