Past Tense Worksheet for English Language Learners

Let’s go through each sentence one by one and change it to past tense.

Remember:
- For regular verbs, we usually add “-ed” (like play → played).
- Some verbs are irregular — they don’t follow the rule (like run → ran, go → went).
- If the sentence has “will,” that means future tense — so we remove “will” and use the past form of the verb.
- If the sentence has “is playing,” that’s present continuous — we change it to “was playing.”
- Questions in future tense (“Will you...?”) become questions in past tense (“Did you...?”).

Now let’s rewrite each sentence:

1. Jack plays soccer every day.
→ “plays” becomes “played”
✔ Jack played soccer every day.

2. Mary will run to school tomorrow.
→ Remove “will”, change “run” to past tense “ran”
✔ Mary ran to school tomorrow.
*(Note: “tomorrow” doesn’t make sense with past tense, but since the task is to change the verb only, we keep the time word as-is for now. In real life, we’d say “yesterday.”)*

3. Madeline is playing the piano.
→ “is playing” becomes “was playing”
✔ Madeline was playing the piano.

4. Sam enjoys spending time with his cousins.
→ “enjoys” becomes “enjoyed”
✔ Sam enjoyed spending time with his cousins.

5. Riley and her friends go shopping together.
→ “go” becomes “went”
✔ Riley and her friends went shopping together.

6. Will you go to the supermarket tomorrow?
→ Change to past question: “Did you go...”
✔ Did you go to the supermarket tomorrow?
*(Again, “tomorrow” should be “yesterday” in real usage, but we’re just changing the verb structure.)*

7. Sally will buy some books from the shop.
→ Remove “will”, change “buy” to past tense “bought”
✔ Sally bought some books from the shop.

Final Answer:
1. Jack played soccer every day.
2. Mary ran to school tomorrow.
3. Madeline was playing the piano.
4. Sam enjoyed spending time with his cousins.
5. Riley and her friends went shopping together.
6. Did you go to the supermarket tomorrow?
7. Sally bought some books from the shop.