This tests irregular past tense verbs. 'Gave' is the special past form of 'give.' Yesterday tells us to use past tense.

This tests irregular past tense verbs. 'Saw' is the correct past tense of 'see.' We say 'This morning Maya saw,' not 'seed.'

This tests irregular past tense verbs. 'Went' is the correct past tense of 'go.' We say 'Last week we went,' not 'goed.'

This tests fixing irregular past tense. 'Brought' is the correct past form of 'bring.' We never say 'bringed' - it's a special verb.

This tests CCSS.L.2.1.d (forming and using irregular past tense verbs like sat, hid, told correctly). Past tense shows an action already happened (yesterday, last week, in the past). Regular verbs add -ed to show past tense (walk→walked, play→played), but irregular verbs change in special ways and don't follow the -ed rule. Common irregular past tense verbs 2nd graders should know: run→ran, come→came, go→went, eat→ate, take→took, make→made, have→had, do→did, see→saw, get→got, say→said, tell→told, give→gave, sit→sat, sing→sang, drink→drank, swim→swam, sleep→slept, keep→kept, feel→felt, leave→left, lose→lost, find→found, catch→caught, bring→brought, teach→taught, think→thought, buy→bought. Choice A is correct because "saw" is the proper past tense of "see." This is an irregular verb that changes vowel, not adding -ed. Choice D shows adding -ed incorrectly to irregular verb. Second graders often try to add -ed to all verbs even irregular ones, creating forms like sawed. To help students: Create irregular verb chart organized by pattern: New Word (go-went, eat-ate, take-took, make-made, have-had, do-did, see-saw, get-got, say-said, tell-told). Practice with flashcards: present on one side, past on other. Use in sentences with time words: "Yesterday I [verb]," "Last week we [verb]." Highlight that irregular verbs DON'T add -ed.

This tests CCSS.L.2.1.d (forming and using irregular past tense verbs like sat, hid, told correctly). Past tense shows an action already happened (yesterday, last week, in the past). Regular verbs add -ed to show past tense (walk→walked, play→played), but irregular verbs change in special ways and don't follow the -ed rule. Common irregular past tense verbs 2nd graders should know: run→ran, come→came, go→went, eat→ate, take→took, make→made, have→had, do→did, see→saw, get→got, say→said, tell→told, give→gave, sit→sat, sing→sang, drink→drank, swim→swam, sleep→slept, keep→kept, feel→felt, leave→left, lose→lost, find→found, catch→caught, bring→brought, teach→taught, think→thought, buy→bought. Choice C is correct because 'made' is the proper past tense of 'make.' This is an irregular verb that changes vowel, not adding -ed. Choice B shows adding -ed incorrectly to irregular verb like 'maked.' Second graders often try to add -ed to all verbs even irregular ones, use present tense ('Yesterday I go'), create forms like runned, goed, eated, taked, catched, bringed, use wrong vowel (comed, brang). Use in sentences with time words: 'Yesterday I [verb],' 'Last week we [verb].' Highlight that irregular verbs DON'T add -ed. Make class book: 'Today I go. Yesterday I went.' with illustrations.

This tests CCSS.L.2.1.d (forming and using irregular past tense verbs like sat, hid, told correctly). Past tense shows an action already happened (yesterday, last week, in the past). Regular verbs add -ed to show past tense (walk→walked, play→played), but irregular verbs change in special ways and don't follow the -ed rule. Common irregular past tense verbs 2nd graders should know: run→ran, come→came, go→went, eat→ate, take→took, make→made, have→had, do→did, see→saw, get→got, say→said, tell→told, give→gave, sit→sat, sing→sang, drink→drank, swim→swam, sleep→slept, keep→kept, feel→felt, leave→left, lose→lost, find→found, catch→caught, bring→brought, teach→taught, think→thought, buy→bought. Choice A is correct because "said" is the proper past tense of "say." This is an irregular verb that changes vowel, not adding -ed. Choice B shows adding -ed incorrectly to irregular verb. Second graders often try to add -ed to all verbs even irregular ones, creating forms like sayed. To help students: Create irregular verb chart organized by pattern: New Word (go-went, eat-ate, take-took, make-made, have-had, do-did, see-saw, get-got, say-said, tell-told). Practice with flashcards: present on one side, past on other. Use in sentences with time words: "Yesterday I [verb]," "Last week we [verb]." Highlight that irregular verbs DON'T add -ed.

This tests CCSS.L.2.1.d (forming and using irregular past tense verbs like sat, hid, told correctly). Past tense shows an action already happened (yesterday, last week, in the past). Regular verbs add -ed to show past tense (walk→walked, play→played), but irregular verbs change in special ways and don't follow the -ed rule. Common irregular past tense verbs 2nd graders should know: run→ran, come→came, go→went, eat→ate, take→took, make→made, have→had, do→did, see→saw, get→got, say→said, tell→told, give→gave, sit→sat, sing→sang, drink→drank, swim→swam, sleep→slept, keep→kept, feel→felt, leave→left, lose→lost, find→found, catch→caught, bring→brought, teach→taught, think→thought, buy→bought. Choice C is correct because 'took' is the proper past tense of 'take.' This is an irregular verb that changes vowel, not adding -ed. Choice A shows adding -ed incorrectly to irregular verb like 'taked.' Second graders often try to add -ed to all verbs even irregular ones, use present tense ('Yesterday I go'), create forms like runned, goed, eated, taked, catched, bringed, use wrong vowel (comed, brang). Common error correction: When student says 'I runned,' respond 'Good try, but run is irregular. We say ran, not runned. Run-ran.' Watch for: adding -ed to irregular (runned, goed, maked, eated, catched, bringed, sayed), using present with past time word ('Yesterday I go'), mixing up patterns (comed, brang), not recognizing no-change verbs ('cutted' instead of cut). Practice with flashcards: present on one side, past on other.

This tests CCSS.L.2.1.d (forming and using irregular past tense verbs like sat, hid, told correctly). Past tense shows an action already happened (yesterday, last week, in the past). Regular verbs add -ed to show past tense (walk→walked, play→played), but irregular verbs change in special ways and don't follow the -ed rule. Common irregular past tense verbs 2nd graders should know: run→ran, come→came, go→went, eat→ate, take→took, make→made, have→had, do→did, see→saw, get→got, say→said, tell→told, give→gave, sit→sat, sing→sang, drink→drank, swim→swam, sleep→slept, keep→kept, feel→felt, leave→left, lose→lost, find→found, catch→caught, bring→brought, teach→taught, think→thought, buy→bought. Choice A is correct because "ate" is the proper past tense of "eat." This is an irregular verb that changes vowel, not adding -ed. Choice C shows adding -ed incorrectly to irregular verb. Second graders often try to add -ed to all verbs even irregular ones, creating forms like eated. To help students: Create irregular verb chart organized by pattern: New Word (go-went, eat-ate, take-took, make-made, have-had, do-did, see-saw, get-got, say-said, tell-told). Practice with flashcards: present on one side, past on other. Use in sentences with time words: "Yesterday I [verb]," "Last week we [verb]." Highlight that irregular verbs DON'T add -ed.

This tests CCSS.L.2.1.d (forming and using irregular past tense verbs like sat, hid, told correctly). Past tense shows an action already happened (yesterday, last week, in the past). Regular verbs add -ed to show past tense (walk→walked, play→played), but irregular verbs change in special ways and don't follow the -ed rule. Common irregular past tense verbs 2nd graders should know: run→ran, come→came, go→went, eat→ate, take→took, make→made, have→had, do→did, see→saw, get→got, say→said, tell→told, give→gave, sit→sat, sing→sang, drink→drank, swim→swam, sleep→slept, keep→kept, feel→felt, leave→left, lose→lost, find→found, catch→caught, bring→brought, teach→taught, think→thought, buy→bought. Choice B is correct because 'went' is the proper past tense of 'go.' This is an irregular verb that becomes a different word, not adding -ed. Choice A shows adding -ed incorrectly to irregular verb like 'goed.' Second graders often try to add -ed to all verbs even irregular ones, use present tense ('Yesterday I go'), create forms like runned, goed, eated, taked, catched, bringed, use wrong vowel (comed, brang). To help students: Create irregular verb chart organized by pattern: Vowel Change (run-ran, sing-sang, drink-drank, swim-swam, sit-sat, give-gave, begin-began), New Word (go-went, eat-ate, take-took, make-made, have-had, do-did, see-saw, get-got, say-said, tell-told), T/D Change (sleep-slept, keep-kept, feel-felt, leave-left, lose-lost, find-found, build-built, send-sent), Ought/Aught (catch-caught, teach-taught, bring-brought, think-thought, buy-bought), No Change (cut-cut, put-put, hit-hit, let-let, hurt-hurt). Practice with flashcards: present on one side, past on other. Use in sentences with time words: 'Yesterday I [verb],' 'Last week we [verb].'