

This Grade 3 worksheet on Simple Past Tense (regular & irregular verbs) is designed to help young learners understand how actions change when we talk about the past. Through structured and engaging exercises, students practice identifying, correcting, rewriting, and applying past tense verbs in meaningful sentences and paragraphs.
The worksheet covers regular verbs (played, jumped, cleaned) and irregular verbs (went, saw, drank, wrote), helping children recognize spelling changes and verb transformations in context.
Understanding the simple past tense helps students:
1. Talk clearly about events that already happened.
2. Differentiate between present, past, and future actions.
3. Build storytelling and paragraph writing skills.
4. Improve sentence structure and verb accuracy.
This worksheet includes five grammar-focused activities that build strong tense understanding:
Exercise 1 – Multiple Choice Questions
Students choose the sentence that is correctly written in the simple past tense.
Exercise 2 – True or False
Learners identify whether sentences are correctly written in simple past tense.
Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks
Students write the correct simple past form of verbs given in brackets.
Exercise 4 – Sentence Rewriting
Students rewrite present tense sentences into simple past tense.
Exercise 5 – Paragraph Completion
Students read a short passage and fill in blanks using the correct past tense verbs from a word box.
This structured progression helps children move from recognition to independent usage, strengthening both grammar accuracy and writing confidence.
Exercise 1 – Multiple Choice Questions
1. b) Ravi played chess yesterday.
2. a) Meera danced on the stage.
3. b) Asha wrote neatly in her notebook.
4. b) They built a sandcastle.
5. a) Raj drank milk at night.
6. b) The dog barked loudly in the street.
7. b) We planted trees last week.
8. a) Rohit played soccer yesterday.
9. a) Father drove to the office.
10. a) The girls sang bhajans in the assembly.
Exercise 2 – True or False
1. T
2. F
3. T
4. F
5. F
6. T
7. F
8. T
9. T
10. F
Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks
1. drew
2. closed
3. ate
4. climbed
5. flew
6. met
7. watched
8. jumped
9. made
10. taught
Exercise 4 – Rewrite in Simple Past Tense
1. Kabir played football after school.
2. Meenu sang in the choir.
3. Isha made a paper boat.
4. Aarav rode his bicycle fast.
5. The boys swam in the pool.
6. His father read the newspaper daily.
7. Pooja walked the dog around the lake.
8. We went to my favourite restaurant.
9. The baby threw the ball.
10. Mother brought fresh flowers.
Exercise 5 – Paragraph Fill in the Blanks
went, ran, saw, waved, climbed, sat, sang, called, brought, drank, wrote, blew, cleaned, drove
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Regular verbs add “ed” (like “jumped”), while irregular verbs change form (like “went”), which is an important focus in a Grade 3 English worksheet.
Irregular verbs do not follow a fixed pattern, so students must memorise common forms such as “ate,” “saw,” and “took.”
It helps children practise correct verb forms in sentences, building strong foundations for CBSE English story writing.