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Past Tense Trap: Past tense verbs comic video
A comic book about past tense verbs. Follow Momo, learn the idea, and answer three questions to beat Dr Divide.
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0:00 LearnFun Comics. Past Tense Trap. Time's jammed on yesterday. Learn past verbs to break free!
0:07 Past Town
0:09 Why are people frozen? Only if you can say what happened!
0:12 Past Tense jammed! Say wrong, stay stuck!
0:16 How do I help? What do I say?
0:19 First: add -ed
0:21 walk , becomes, walked. talk , becomes, talked. wake , becomes, woke
0:25 Most verbs add -ed at the end. Easy peasy!
0:29 Walked, talked, woke. Ha!
0:31 See: Most verbs get a -ed helper, like play->played.
0:36 run , becomes, ran. play , becomes, played. sleep , becomes, slept
0:41 Next: some change
0:43 go , becomes, went. see , becomes, saw. do , becomes, did
0:47 Some verbs are special and change. Like go becoming went.
0:51 Your turn, hero! Momo ate his cookie. But which is wrong? A: ate his. B: eats his. C: his. D: ate
1:03 The answer is eats his. Eats is in the present tense, not past.
1:08 Wrong verbs? Youโre stuck, silly!
1:10 How do you say run in the past? A: running. B: ran. C: runing. D: runned
1:20 The answer is ran. Run becomes ran in the past tense.
1:24 The final battle What about see? Which is right? A: seen. B: seened. C: sawed. D: saw
1:34 The answer is saw. See becomes saw in the past tense, not seen.
1:39 Time reset! I win!
1:41 I knew walked, talked, woke! Free now!
1:44 Past Town can move again. But whatโs that noise?
1:47 Remember. Most verbs get -ed Some verbs change, like go becomes went Practice makes perfect with -ed verbs
1:54 Will the future catch up? A new tense puzzle looms...
1:58 Read this comic and answer the questions yourself, at learn fun dot in.
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