Boot Up

PRACTICE A
Instructions: Analyze each sentence carefully. Identify the verbs in each item and transform
each into the past tense. Then, rewrite the sentences with the verbs in the past tense.

1. We move to our ancestral We moved to our ancestral house

house
2. They bring a bilao of suman
3. They sell kakanin
4. Clarisse miss the jeepney
5. She reads a book
6. Last year, I go to Impasug-
ong
7. I visit my friend last week
8. She loves to read pocket
books
9. My mom bakes bingka for
snacks.
10. The magtutudlo calls her
students
They brought a bilao of suman
They sold kakanin
Clarisse missed the jeepney
She read a book
Last year, I went to Impasug-ong
I visited my friend last week
She loved to read pocket books
My mom baked bingka for snacks.
The magtutudlo called her students

PRACTICE B
Instructions: Analyze each sentence carefully. Encircle the letter of your answer.

1. Yesterday, the Datu’s only child ________ Belen’s daughter.

A. marry B. marries C. married D. marrying

2. He the laws about ancestral domains last night.

A. study B. studies C. studied D. study

3. My sister a manghihilot few hours ago.

A. seen B. sees C. see D. saw

4. I to the riverside to wash our clothes after school.

A. gone B. go C. went D. goes

5. I the wedding vows alone.

A. write B. wrote C. written D. writes

PRACTICE C
Instructions: Encircle the correct past form of the verb to complete the sentences.
1. The datu (arrived, had arrived) early in the meeting place this morning.

2. The officiating priest (began, had begun) the wedding when the photographers
(arrived, had arrived) at the church.

3. The Philippine President (gave, had given) his speech after he (took, had
taken) a call.

4. The children (did, had done) caroling through the Christmas season when Covid was
still not in an outbreak.
5. The gentle Bae (got, had gotten, was getting) married last year.