Grammar worksheets present and past simple

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Exercise 1

Using the Verb "To be"

Write the correct form of the verb "To be" in present tense

They We I

Example: | (be) am happy Example:

You / We/ They (be) are happy

1) | (be) tired

2) | (be) hungry

3) | (be) late!

7) You (be) _—_nice

8) We (be) sleepy

9) They (be) funny

Example: He / She / It (be) is happy

4) He (be) cool Hi, how Saeed 5) She (be) pretty

6) lt(be) fast

are you?

Now we'll use nouns instead of pronouns

10) John (be) excited

11) Tiffany and Uma (be) _

my friends

12) Ricardo, John and l(be) _ watching a movie

13) Hadil (be) kind

14) Alisa (be) young

18) Nikkos and Billy (be) playing at the park

19) The students (be) _ studying English

20) The test (be) hardi 21) My bestfriend (be) coming to my house

15) The hammer (be)_ new

16) My mother and father (be)

cooking dinner

17) Rachel (be) driving to school

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=" Using the Verb "To be"

Choose the correct form of "to be" in present tense

Example: | (be) am excited

Example: Jessica and Akbar (be) are happy

Example: The new car (be) is nice

1) The bag (be) blue 2) The rocks (be) hard

A am A am

B are B are

C is C is

3) The children (be) young 4) Thomas (be) nice

A am A am

B are B are

C is C is

5) The game (be) difficult 6) They (be) tired

A am A am

B are B are

C is C is 7) | (be) thirty years old 8) Susan and Juan (be)

married

A am

B are A am

C is B are

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9) Teddy (be) my friend 10) We (be) in English

class

A am

B are A am

C is B are

C is

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Exercise 3

Write the correct form of the verb "to be" in present tense

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Note: The verb can be positive (+) or negative (-) Use not to form the negative

Example: My teacher (be) is nice (+) Example: The cat (be, not) is not hungry (-)

1) The old man (be) wise 2) The sun (be) hot

3) The children (be) eating bananas They (be, not)

eating apples

4) | (be) happy | (be, not)

Sad

5) The racecar (be) fast It 6) My friend (be) buying a

(be, not) slow new car Her old car broke down It

doesn't work anymore

7) | (be) at the beach with 8) Ko and Jacob (be) very

my family It (be) hot and smart Ko (be) a scientist sunny outside The ocean water and Jacob (be) an (be) warm engineer

9) The library (be) open 10) The school (be) small It

until 9:00 p.m (be, not) big

11) The books (be) new 12) Tommy, Steven, and Teddy (be) They (be, not) old acting in the school play

13) Beatrice (be) at her 14) It (be) hot outside It

house (be, not) cold outside

16) Judith (be, not) at 15) You (be) finished with home She (be) at the quiz! school

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Write the correct form of "to be" in present tense

My name (be) «) John | (be) 2) fifteen years old | live

on a farm It (be) 3) In the country It is quiet in the country It (be, not)

4) loud in the country

(be) 7 a really good cook + Next, | feed the pigs One time, | asked my mom how come my little sister doesn’t feed them She said it is because my sister (be, not) i) Strong enough But | still don’t understand She is almost as strong as me! | guess my mom doesn't want my sister to get hurt After all, the pigs can (be) (9) pretty rough, especially when they (be) +ò hungry

The last thing | do (be) 1) feed the chickens That (be)

12) easy | just throw some food down on the ground and they run out

and eat it While the chickens (be) 13) eating, | go into their house to

collect their eggs Chicken eggs (be) ua) really good to eat They (be)

1s) easy to cook too That is what | do in the mornings | (be)

ve) pretty busy

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Exercise 5

Write the correct form of "to be" in present tense

Tess and Jen «) best friends

They do everything together They spend every day together

One day they meet on the bus to school They start talking

“Hey Jen,” says Tess “How 2) you?”

“Hey girl,” says Jen “I 3) doing fine What 4) going on? What

«) you doing today?"

“Oh,” says Tess, “I

plans.” «) doing anything special | don't have any

“That 7) COO.”

“Yeah,” says Tess “But | have something to tell you.”

“Really! Can | try to guess?”

“Umm ” says Tess “Well ”

“Okay, | get three guesses Ready?”

“Umm, well okay.”

“

ø We eating dinner together 2”

“No, that 9) it.”

“Okay Are we going to the soccer game together?”

“No It ao that either.” Tess looks nervous Her eyes look sad A tear

starts to fall down her cheek

“Oh,” says Jen, wiping a tear from her own eye “Now | know You

moving away.”

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Exercise 6

= Using the Verb "To be"

Choose the correct form of "to be" in past tense

Example: You /We/ They (be) were sick yesterday

Example: | / He / She / It (be) was sick yesterday

1) | (be) tired yesterday 2) You (be) happy

yesterday

A was

B were A was

B were

3) We (be) sad yesterday 4) They (be) busy

yesterday

A was

B were A was

B were

5) He (be) angry yesterday 6) She (be) sleepy

yesterday

A was

B were A was

B were

7) It (be) cold yesterday

A was

B were

Practice writing sentences using the verb “to be’ in past tense

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Example: You /We/ They (be) were sick last night

Example: | / He / She / It (be) was sick last night

1) | (be) tired last night

A was

B were

3) Richard and | (be) excited last night

A was

B were

5) Julian (be) angry yesterday

A was

B were

7) The movie (be) scary | don't want to watch it again

A was

B were

9) Jonathan (be)

So, he ate a sandwich hungry

A was

B were

2) You (be) night happy last

A was

B were

4) Javier and Roberto (be) lazy last night

A was

B were

6) Rachel (be) yesterday sleepy

A was

B were

8) Ko, Teddy, and Peter (be)

tired after the long drive

A was

B were

10) My mom (be) helping the teacher at school yesterday

A was

B were

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Exercise 8

= Using the Verb "To be"

Example: My dog (be) was sick last night (positive) Example: Carlos (be, not) was not at work yesterday (negative)

1) The party (be) fun last 2) They (be) watching a

weekend movie when Ernesto called They

(be, not) watching TV

3) Jessie (be) tired.So,he 4) When she was alittle girl, Margo

went to sleep (be) very good at tennis

she practiced every day

5) My friends and | (be) 6) Kendra (be) in my sixth studying English last night grade English class We (be)

good friends before she moved away

7) The movie (be) really 8) After playing outside, my dog (be)

boring It (be, not) very dirty She came into entertaining We stopped watching the house and ran into my room It

it before it was over (be) such a mess!

9) | (be, not) eating a 10) The students (be, not) sandwich when you called | (be) ready to take the test They

eating a salad needed to study more

Practice writing sentences using the verb “to be” in past tense

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Exercise 9

Using Verb ‘tobe

Name Date

Write the correct form of "to be" in past tense

Example: My dog (be) was sick last night (positive) Example: Carlos (be, not) was not at work yesterday (negative)

1) Teddy (be) driving home when | saw him

3) Who (be) sleeping in my

bed? It (be, not) James

It (be, not) Julio Oh, | know! It (be) Roger!

5) At 7:00 we (be) eating

dinner and watching T.V

7) When | (be) in the ninth grade, | (be) five feet tall

9) The cat (be) faster than the mouse So, the cat caught the mouse Unlucky mouse!

2) Mack, Jenny, and Javier (be)

walking their dog when | talked to them last Saturday

4) | (be) going to the grocery store when you called

6) When he was a kid, Ivan (be, not)

always reading a book or

listening to music in his room

8) Lola (be) a very nice girl

She helped her parents, did her

homework, and even took care of her little brother It is a shame she had to move away

10) The weather (be) hot

We (be) sweating |

asked my mom to roll the window down

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Exercise 10

== Using the Verb "To be"

Choose the correct form of "to be" in present tense or past tense

Example: My dog (be) is sick today (present tense)

Example: My dog (be) was sick last night (past tense)

1) The clouds moved away, and the sun shone through The sky was full of

pretty colors It (be) beautiful

2) Arturo and Ryo (be) at the party last night

3) (be) Taylor going to the pool later2

4) The old house (be) built in 1967

5) Christopher, where (be) you last night? | (be) looking all

over for you

6) Yesterday (be) the best day of my life!

7) | (be) ready to go When (be) we leaving?

8) Who (be) at the pool yesterday?

9) | (be) very tired | (be) tired yesterday too | think |

(be) getting sick

10) | (be) driving to the office this morning when | noticed that | was

getting low on gas So, | stopped to get more A kind man filled the tank for

me He (be) very nice

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Exercise 11

“= Using the Verb "To be"

Write the correct form of "to be" in present tense or past tense

Example: My dog (be) is sick (present tense)

Example: My dog (be) was sick last night (past tense)

1) Sarah (be) at the party 2) Avery (be) my best

last night Li-Ning and Akmoud (be) friend She and | (be) in

there too the same English class It meets

from 10:00 to 10:50

3) Mallika and | (be) at 4) Johan and | (be) in the

Jenny's house yesterday Now, we mountains We (be) ona (be) at Mellissa's house camping trip together | hope we

don't see a bear!

5) When she (be) young, 6) Tennis (be) my favorite

Nisha (be) interested in sport when | was in high school

science However, she (be, not) Now my favorite sport (be)

interested in science soccer

anymore Now, she (be) interested in math

7) My family and | (to be) 8) Lenny (be) at the football

swimming in the pool when it began game last night He (be)

to thunder The lifeguard told us we cheering for his favorite team After the had to get out | (be) game, he came back home and went to upset, but | knew he was right sleep | think he (be) still

sleeping now Shhhh don't wake him up!

9) It rained all day yesterday | (be) 10) Before, Yoko and Kobi (be)

sad because | could not enemies Now they (be)

go outside However, today it (be) best friends

sunny And | (be) happy because | can

go outside!

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Exercise 12

Write the correct form of "to be" in present tense or past tense

“| «) going outside,” said Jerry

“Wait!” said Jerry's mom

Don’t forget to wear your jacket

It Cold out there

“But mom,” said Jerry “I don’t want to wear it

| will be fine without it

Besides, it @ that cold today.”

Jerry opened the door The wind « blowing and the trees (5) shaking Leaves «falling to the ground He shivered a little and stood

behind the door

“Jerry!” shouted Jerry’s mom “You close that door and get your coat young man.”

“But mom!” said Jerry

“But what?” said Jerry’s mom “I don’t understand why you don’t want to wear

your new coat m™there something wrong with it?

Jerry’s face turned red “No!” he said “Nothing's wrong with it!” Then he covered

his mouth with his hand

“Well then ” said Jerry’s mom “Why don’t you want to wear it?”

“Well, mom,” said Jerry “I kind of well gave it away.”

“You what?” said Jerry’s mom “You gave it away?”

“Yeah But don’t worry It Okay | gave it to Marvin And he really needs it.”

“Why?”

“Well, every time | see him, he looks cold He @ always cold, actually

His parents cannot afford to buy him a jacket.”

“Well, that «io a very nice thing for you to do, dear But now

what «1) you going to do without a jacket?”

“| don’t know Maybe I'll wear my old jacket for a little while.”

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