Simple Past Tense Worksheet Exercises for Class 3 CBSE with Answers

This grammar section explains English Grammar in a clear and simple way. There are example sentences to show how the language is used.

Simple Past Tense Worksheet Exercises for Class 3 CBSE with Answers PDF

• Verbs have forms called tenses that tell us when the action happens.
• We use the simple past tense to talk about actions or events that happened in the past.
• The simple past tense is usually made by adding ‘ed’ to the verb.
• If a verb ends in e, we add’d’ to change it to simple past tense.
• If a verb ends in y, we change the y to ‘i’ before adding ‘ed’.

Presentation
Read the picture story.

A. Answer the following questions as per the story.

1. What did bear see in a tree? ___________
2. What did bear get? ___________
3. How did bees react? ___________

B. Match the present form of verb with the past form of verb.

Simple Past Tense Worksheets for Grade 3 with Answers PDF

A. Rewrite the story using the past tense.
Kitty is a greedy cat. One day she find a large piece of cake. She want to eat it alone in some quiet and peaceful place. She run towards the forest with the cake in her mouth. She come to a bridge on the way. As she starts to cross the bridge, she look down at the clear water in the river. She see her own reflection in the water. She think to her herself that there is another cat there with a nice piece of cake! She wants to have that cake too. So, she jump into the river to snatch it from the other cat. Sadly, she loses her own piece of cake in the water. She comes out of the water with great difficulty and goes away feeling sad and angry.

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B. Use the past form of the given words from the box to fill in the blanks.
wake – win – teach – sing – fall – dance – steal – hurt – carry – ring

1. Dad ___________ me how to use the computer.
2. The bell ___________ loudly.
3. Everyone ___________ and ___________ at the picnic.
4. The tortoise ___________ the race.
5. The player down and ___________ his leg.
6. Somebody ___________ my purse in the market.
7. He ___________ a large bag.
8. They ___________ up early.