- Year 5
Writing sentences in the perfect present tense
I can write a range of sentence types using the perfect present tense.
- Year 5
Writing sentences in the perfect present tense
I can write a range of sentence types using the perfect present tense.
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Key learning points
- The verb carries the tense of a sentence.
- The perfect tense can denote present, past or future action.
- The perfect tense is a tense that makes use of an auxiliary verb from the infinitive 'to have' with the main verb.
- The auxiliary verb is followed by the past participle of the main verb in the perfect tense.
Keywords
Verb - a doing or being word
Perfect tense - a tense often used to refer to action that has finished
Auxiliary verb - the helping verb that is always paired with the main verb
Infinitive - any verb preceded by the word 'to'
Common misconception
Pupils may confuse the progressive and perfect tenses as both use an auxiliary verb.
Emphasise that the progressive uses 'being' auxiliary verbs and the perfect uses 'having' auxiliary verbs.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What two kinds of word are always found in a progressive tense sentence?
Q2.Match the keywords to their examples.
-ing
were
to play
Q3.Tick all the sentences that use a progressive tense.
Q4.Match each progressive tense to the example sentences.
She is trying her best.
She was trying her best.
She will be trying her best.
Q5.Tick the sentences written in the progressive past tense throughout.
Q6.Tick the sentences that are correctly formed in the progressive tense.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of the following would always be found in a perfect tense sentence?
Q2.Match the sentences to the perfect tense used.
Sam had eaten already.
Sam has eaten already.
Sam will have eaten already.
Q3.Which of these sentences use the perfect present tense?
Q4.Tick the sentence that uses the perfect present tense correctly.
Q5.Match the simple past tense verb to the correct past tense form of the verb that would be used in the perfect present tense.
been
drawn
known
spoken