Year 5 · SPaG · Verb tenses and the perfect form
Year 5 recognising the perfect form in sentences worksheet and PowerPoint
To recognise the present perfect, the past perfect and the future perfect in sentences.
Three perfect forms
All three perfect forms use a past participle. The helping words tell you when.
| present perfect | has / have + past participle: She has finished. |
|---|---|
| past perfect | had + past participle: She had finished. |
| future perfect | will have + past participle: She will have finished. |
Examples
- I have tidied my room.
- I had tidied my room before you came.
- I will have tidied my room by tea time.
Key words
- perfect form
- a verb group with a helping verb and a past participle
- present perfect
- has / have + past participle
- past perfect
- had + past participle
- future perfect
- will have + past participle
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: Write one sentence for each perfect form about the same event: something you do, did and will do. Underline the helping words.
Pupil target: I can tell the three perfect forms apart.
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 perfect form in sentences PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 20 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
- Recognising the past perfect form
- Using the past perfect form
- Recognising the future perfect form
- Using the future perfect form
- Using the perfect form in sentences
- Which tense?
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