Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.11.D
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
(i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement;
(ii) past, present, and future verb tense;
(iii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;
(iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
(v) adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner;
(vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;
(vii) pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;
(viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;
(ix) capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places;
(x) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in contractions and possessives and commas in compound sentences and items in a series; and
(xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
3rd Grade Writing - Verbs Lesson
Verb Tenses
A verb is a word that shows an action or state of being.
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VerbTenses: Past, Present, Future
Verbs changeform to show when the action or state of being occurred.
PresentTense
The simple presenttense shows actions or states of being that happen regularly or are happening now.
Example:
Verbs in the present tense may end in -s, -es, or have no change from the base verb, depending on the subject.
PastTense
The simple pasttense shows actions or states of being that happened in the past. They are already completed.
Example:
Regular verbs in the past tense end in -ed — like jumped and walked — but some irregular verbs — like "ate" and "ran" — change forms completely.
FutureTense
The simple futuretense shows actions or states of being that are expected to happen in the future. They will happen, but they have not yet happened, and they are not happening now.
Example:
Verbs in the future tense include the helping verb will or shall before the base form of the verb.