Year 5 · SPaG · Verb tenses and the perfect form
Year 5 recognising the past perfect form worksheet and PowerPoint
To recognise the past perfect form and to tell it from the simple past and the present perfect.
The past perfect
The past perfect uses had and the past participle. It shows that one thing had already happened before another thing in the past.
| had + past participle | We had eaten when the film began. |
|---|---|
| simple past | We ate lunch. (just in the past) |
| present perfect | We have eaten. (has / have) |
| clue | look for had before the past participle |
Examples
- Mum had cooked tea before we got home.
- The rain had stopped by the time we arrived.
Key words
- past perfect
- had + past participle
- past participle
- the verb form used after has, have and had
- simple past
- the plain past form, such as walked
- auxiliary verb
- a helping verb such as had
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Find five sentences in a story that use had with a past participle. Copy them and underline the verb group. Say what had already happened in each one.
Pupil target: I can spot the past perfect.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the recognising the past perfect form PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 16 of 43 in the Year 5 SPaG scheme, in the block “Verb tenses and the perfect form”.
Other lessons in this block
- Past or present
- The present perfect form
- Using the past perfect form
- Recognising the future perfect form
- Using the future perfect form
- Recognising the perfect form in sentences
- Using the perfect form in sentences
- Which tense?
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