Regular and Irregular Simple Past Tense Verbs Worksheets for Grade 2

Ten worksheet formats drill regular and irregular past-tense verbs, from sorting and matching to spotting the correctly spelled past-tense form among common misspellings.

Grades: Grades 1–5, Elementary
Pages: 14
File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Mar 08, 2026

Subject: Grammar, Language Development, ELA
Topic: Regular and Irregular Verbs Worksheets, Past Tense Verbs Practice
Resource types: Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Preparation: Print ready

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About this resource

Introduction

This Regular and Irregular Verbs Worksheet Pack helps students learn the difference between regular and irregular verbs and practise using their correct past tense forms. Through a variety of activities, learners identify verbs, match them with their past tense, and complete sentences to strengthen their grammar and writing skills.

What’s Included:

Sorting verbs into regular and irregular verb columns

Writing the past tense forms of verbs

Matching verbs with their correct past tense

Multiple-choice past tense verb practice

Identifying whether verbs are regular or irregular

Sentence completion using the correct past tense verb

Verb identification activities in sentences

Grades / Ages:

Ideal for Grades 2–6

Implementation Format:

Perfect for literacy centres, morning work, small groups, grammar lessons, independent work, or homework practice.

Answer Key:

Not included

File Type:

PDF (Non-editable)

Number of Pages:

14 pages total

License:

Paid product for personal or single-classroom use only

Tags to Use:

Regular and irregular verbs worksheets, past tense verbs practice, verb grammar worksheets, English grammar activities, ESL verb practice, elementary grammar worksheets, verb tense practice, ELA grammar activities

What's included

Sort-the-verbs worksheet: 20 verbs sorted into regular and irregular columns (page 1)
Label-and-conjugate worksheets: mark each verb R or I and write its past tense (pages 2, 6)
Match-to-past-tense worksheets: verbs matched to their past-tense forms (pages 3, 10)
Circle-the-correct-spelling worksheet: choose the correctly spelled past tense from a real form and a common misspelling (page 4)
Multiple-choice sentence completion: choose the correct past-tense verb to finish a sentence (page 5)
Picture-cued verb worksheet: write a verb and its past tense from a word bank alongside images (page 8)
Present/past sorting chart: sort a word bank into regular and irregular columns with present and past-tense rows (page 9)
Fill-in-the-blank sentences using a given verb bank (page 11)
Circle-all-regular-verbs and circle-all-irregular-verbs worksheets (pages 12, 14)
Sentence identification worksheet: underline the verb and label it regular or irregular (page 13)

Resource types: Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students classify verbs as regular or irregular based on whether the past tense adds -ed or changes form.
Students write the correct past-tense form of a given verb.
Students identify the correctly spelled past-tense form when presented with a common misspelling as a distractor.
Students select or supply the correct past-tense verb to complete a sentence in context.

Teaching tips

Use page 4's circle-the-correct-spelling activity as a quick check for common irregular-verb misspellings such as 'bended' for 'bent' and 'buyed' for 'bought.'
Assign the picture-cued page 8 to students who benefit from an image alongside the verb before writing its past tense.
Save the two circle-all pages, 12 and 14, as a fast review once students have already practiced the fill-in and matching pages.
Because each page introduces a new list of verbs, spread the fourteen pages across several short sessions rather than assigning them all at once.

Skills covered

Regular/irregular verb classification — students sort or label verbs across the packet as regular (-ed) or irregular (changed form).
Past-tense formation — students write the correct past-tense form of a base verb.
Spelling discrimination — students choose the correctly spelled irregular past tense over a plausible misspelling, such as 'bent' versus 'bended.'
Sentence-level verb usage — students select or supply the correct past-tense verb to complete a sentence (pages 5, 11, 13).

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Do all fourteen pages use the same list of verbs?

Each page introduces its own set of verbs, so across the packet students meet dozens of different regular and irregular forms rather than repeating a single fixed list.