Every sentence you will ever write needs one. Walk the valley from your first doing words to full active and passive voice, play the games, collect the badges, and print the worksheet at the end of each stop.
A verb is the working part of a sentence. It tells you what happens, when it happened, and who did it, and if you remove it the sentence stops being a sentence at all. "The train" is a label. "The train left" is news. Most learners meet verbs three separate times: once in primary school as doing words, again in middle school as tenses that keep changing shape, and a third time in O Level, IGCSE or Matric where the same verb has to be flipped into the passive voice or reported speech under exam pressure. Verb Valley puts all three encounters on one road so nothing gets learned twice in different words. Each stop below has its own explanations, its own games, its own practice set with instant marking, and its own printable worksheet with a full answer key at the back.
Pick the grade you are in. If a stop feels too easy, walk on to the next one. Nothing is locked, and nothing needs an account.
Doing words you can act out, the being verbs is, am and are, and adding an s to the verb when only one person is doing it. Four named tests, three games, 24 marked exercises, ten written questions with answers and two free PDFs, including 24 action verb cards.
Past, present and future simple, the rule keepers that take -ed and the rule breakers that refuse, and subject and verb agreement for I, you, we and they. Three games, 24 marked exercises, a 48 question worksheet, a hundred verb irregular list and a 24 pair flashcard game.
Helping verbs and modals, all twelve tenses laid out as one grid rather than twelve separate rules, main verb against auxiliary, and transitive against intransitive.
Active into passive, reported speech and the tense shifts it forces, conditionals type 0 to 3, and gerunds against infinitives and participles.
Change the tense, change the voice, change the narration. Timed drills built around the question types that actually appear in the paper.
Ask the child to read one sentence and point at the verb. If they cannot find it, or if they say a verb has to be something you can see happening, start at Level 1. The four tests there take about ten minutes and they fix the problem for good. If they can find the verb but write things like I walks, we walks, or yesterday I goed, start at Level 2. Those three mistakes all come from the same gap, and Tense Town is built around closing it. A student who can already change a verb into the past, the present and the future without thinking is ready for Level 3 and the twelve tense grid. Nothing here is locked, so there is no harm in dropping back a level for ten minutes to be sure.
Eight kinds of verb question fire at random. A correct answer builds your streak and your multiplier climbs to 4x. A wrong answer costs you 3 seconds and resets the streak. Beat your own score.
Answer as many as you can before the timer runs out. Tap an option to lock it in.
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Printable A4, made by Numrahedu, with the full answer key on the last page. No email needed.
Every question in Verb Valley traces back to one of these six ideas.
| Kind of verb | What it does | Example sentence |
|---|---|---|
| Action | Names something the subject physically or mentally does. | Bilal kicked the ball over the wall. |
| Linking | Joins the subject to a word that describes or renames it. No action happens. | The soup tastes salty. |
| Helping | Sits in front of the main verb to fix the tense, the mood or the voice. | She has finished her homework. |
| Modal | Adds permission, ability, advice or possibility. Never takes an s. | You should revise before Friday. |
| Transitive | Passes its action on to an object. Ask "what?" and you get an answer. | Ayesha painted the gate. |
| Intransitive | Completes its own meaning. Ask "what?" and there is nothing. | The baby slept. |
A verb is the word that tells you what the subject does, or what state the subject is in. If you can put "I" or "she" in front of it and it makes sense, such as I run, she thinks, it is behaving like a verb. A quick classroom test: take the word out of the sentence. If the sentence collapses into a fragment, you have removed the verb.
English has three time frames, past, present and future, and each one appears in four forms: simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. That gives twelve tense forms in total. Level 2 teaches the three simple ones, which carry almost all of a primary school child's writing, and Level 3 lays all twelve out in a single grid so you can see the pattern instead of learning twelve separate rules.
A regular verb builds its past form by adding ed, so walk becomes walked. An irregular verb changes its spelling instead, so go becomes went and buy becomes bought. There is no rule that predicts them, which is why Level 2 groups the hundred most common ones into families and gives you the whole list as a free printable.
In the active voice the subject does the action: the gardener watered the plants. In the passive voice the action is done to the subject and the doer becomes optional: the plants were watered by the gardener. The passive always uses a form of be plus the past participle. Level 4 and Level 5 cover the full transformation both ways.
Verb work is not usually a standalone question. It is marked inside your writing through accuracy of tense, consistency of tense across a piece, correct subject and verb agreement, and controlled use of the passive in report or article tasks. Level 4 is built around those marking points rather than around labelling exercises.
Yes. Every PDF on this page downloads with no sign up, no email and no watermark, and each one ends with a complete answer key so a parent or teacher can mark it in a minute. You may print them for your own class.
They run from Grade 1 to Cambridge O Level. Grade and Class share the same numbers, so Level 1 suits Grade 1 and 2 in the United States and Canada, Class 1 and 2 in Pakistan and India, and Year 2 and 3 in the United Kingdom. Level 2 suits Grade and Class 3 to 5, or Year 4 to 6. The later levels are built around Cambridge O Level, IGCSE and FBISE SSC Matric.
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