Perfect Tense Worksheet for Grade 5 Students

Let’s work through the worksheet step by step.

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Part 1: Identify the verb tense (past perfect, present perfect, or future perfect)

We’re looking at underlined verbs and deciding which “perfect” tense they are.

Remember:
- Present perfect = has/have + past participle → happens before now, but time isn’t finished.
- Past perfect = had + past participle → happened before another thing in the past.
- Future perfect = will have + past participle → will be done before a future time.

Now let’s go one by one:

1. ✔ Already solved: *She will have studied* → future perfect (correct)

2. *He has eaten chicken every day for a month.*
→ “has eaten” → present perfect
✔ Answer: present perfect

3. *My cat, Whiskers, has slept the entire day.*
→ “has slept” → present perfect
✔ Answer: present perfect

4. *Eric and Susie have wanted to get a dog since they were little.*
→ “have wanted” → present perfect
✔ Answer: present perfect

5. *The students had worked hard in class so they earned a pizza party.*
→ “had worked” → past perfect (happened before earning the party)
✔ Answer: past perfect

6. *My principal will have earned another degree from a nearby university.*
→ “will have earned” → future perfect
✔ Answer: future perfect

7. *The family will have traveled to thirty different states.*
→ “will have traveled” → future perfect
✔ Answer: future perfect

8. *We had gone to the store to buy some flowers for my mom.*
→ “had gone” → past perfect
✔ Answer: past perfect

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Part 2: Complete the sentence with the correct perfect tense of the verb

We need to pick the right form based on context.

1. ✔ Already solved: *After this play ends, we ___ (act)* → “will have acted” → future perfect (because it’s after something in the future)

2. *My mom ___ (drive) three hours already on our way to Florida.*
→ “already” suggests up to now → present perfect
→ Subject: “my mom” → singular → use “has driven”
✔ Answer: has driven

3. *We ___ (study) a lot for the test before we finally took it yesterday.*
→ “before we took it yesterday” → both actions in past, studying happened first → past perfect
→ “had studied”
✔ Answer: had studied

4. *When I am in sixth grade, I ___ (attend) every year of school in the same city.*
→ “when I am in sixth grade” → future point → action completed by then → future perfect
→ “will have attended”
✔ Answer: will have attended

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Final Answers:

Part 1:
2. present perfect
3. present perfect
4. present perfect
5. past perfect
6. future perfect
7. future perfect
8. past perfect

Part 2:
2. has driven
3. had studied
4. will have attended

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Final Answer:
2. present perfect
3. present perfect
4. present perfect
5. past perfect
6. future perfect
7. future perfect
8. past perfect
Part 2 – 2. has driven
Part 2 – 3. had studied
Part 2 – 4. will have attended