Verb Groups & Tense

A practical grammar resource that helps students understand verb groups, maintain consistent tense and make stronger verb choices in their writing.

Students explore how main verbs and helping verbs work together to form verb groups and show past, present and future tense. They build and change verb groups, investigate verbs in texts, correct tense errors and experiment with more precise and powerful verb choices.

Students will:

• identify complete verb groups in sentences

• distinguish between helping verbs and main verbs

• recognise and use past, present and future tense

• maintain consistent tense in their writing

• build and change verb groups

• choose stronger verbs to make writing clearer and more engaging

What's included:

• Learning Intention and Success Criteria

• Verb Groups & Tense anchor chart

• 6 open-ended activities

• verb group identification and building tasks

• tense-changing activities

• editing and correcting tense errors

• stronger verb choice activities

• independent writing challenge

5-page printable PDF digital download.