Irregular past tense verbs
Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs correctly (e.g., sat, hid, told, went, came, ran), recognising that these do not follow the regular -ed pattern
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When your child writes about something that happened in the past with an irregular verb — like "run" or "sit" — do they write "ran" and "sat" rather than "runned" and "sitted"?
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Curriculum alignment
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Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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