Examples of Regular Verb Conjugation in Sentences for 8th Grade

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 📖 Regular verbs are verbs whose past tense and past participle forms are created by adding '-ed' or '-d' to the base form of the verb.
• ✍️ The three principal parts of a verb are the base form, the past tense, and the past participle. For regular verbs, the past tense and past participle are the same.
• 💡 To conjugate a regular verb, you simply change the form of the verb to agree with the subject and tense.
• 🗓️ Here's a simple example with the verb 'walk':
  • Present: I walk, you walk, he/she/it walks, we walk, they walk
  • Past: I walked, you walked, he/she/it walked, we walked, they walked
  • Future: I will walk, you will walk, he/she/it will walk, we will walk, they will walk
• ✅ Remember to watch out for spelling changes when adding '-ed' or '-d', especially with verbs ending in 'e' or with a short vowel sound followed by a consonant.

Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following sentences correctly uses the past tense of the regular verb 'play'?
   1. A) I will play basketball tomorrow.
   2. B) I playing basketball yesterday.
   3. C) I played basketball yesterday.
   4. D) I play basketball every day.
2. Choose the sentence that uses the past participle of the regular verb 'bake' correctly.
   1. A) She bake a cake for the party.
   2. B) She bakes a cake every week.
   3. C) She had baked a cake before I arrived.
   4. D) She baking a cake right now.
3. Which sentence demonstrates the correct conjugation of the regular verb 'listen' in the present tense for a third-person singular subject?
   1. A) I listen to music.
   2. B) They listen to music.
   3. C) He listen to music.
   4. D) She listens to music.
4. Select the sentence that properly uses the future tense of the regular verb 'paint'.
   1. A) I painted the wall yesterday.
   2. B) I paint the wall every year.
   3. C) I will paint the wall tomorrow.
   4. D) I painting the wall now.
5. Identify the sentence where the regular verb 'help' is correctly used in the past tense.
   1. A) She help her mother every day.
   2. B) She helps her mother now.
   3. C) She helped her mother yesterday.
   4. D) She will help her mother later.
6. Which of these sentences uses the correct past participle form of the regular verb 'fix'?
   1. A) He fix the car yesterday.
   2. B) He fixes the car every week.
   3. C) He had fixed the car before the trip.
   4. D) He fixing the car now.
7. Choose the sentence that correctly uses the regular verb 'dance' in the present continuous tense.
   1. A) They dance every Saturday.
   2. B) They danced last Saturday.
   3. C) They are dancing right now.
   4. D) They will dance next Saturday.