About This Worksheet
This Grade 7 Language Arts worksheet helps students repair sentences with incorrect verb forms or incomplete verb phrases. Each sentence contains a problem involving a missing helping verb, an incorrect verb tense, or a linking verb that does not fit the sentence. Students must rewrite the full sentence so it sounds natural and grammatically complete. For example, “The students working on their history projects last night” needs a helping verb, such as were working, to become a complete sentence.
Learning Goals
The main goal is to help students recognize and correct common verb errors in real sentences. Students should already know that a verb phrase may contain a helping verb and a main verb. This activity moves them toward checking tense, agreement, and verb function during editing. It supports CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.1 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.3, which focus on correct grammar and clear language choices.
Student Tasks
On this worksheet, students will read ten sentences and find the verb problem in each one. They will rewrite the sentence with the correct helping verb, main verb form, or linking verb. The errors include missing forms of be, incorrect perfect-tense forms, subject-verb agreement problems, and awkward linking-verb constructions. Students should keep the original meaning while making every sentence complete and correct.
Common Challenges
Some students may notice that a sentence sounds wrong but change the wrong word. Others may add a helping verb without checking whether the main verb form also needs to change. Sentences such as “The movie was seemed too long” can be especially confusing because both words may look like verbs, but they do not belong together in that form. Encourage students to identify the subject, decide when the action happened, and then build the correct verb phrase.
Teaching Suggestions
A teacher can model the editing process by asking three questions: “Who or what is the subject?” “When did the action happen?” and “Does the verb phrase sound complete?” Students can underline the original verb words before rewriting. At home, a parent can read the incorrect sentence aloud and ask the child to say the corrected version naturally before writing it. Speaking the sentence first often helps students hear the missing or misused verb.
Worksheet Features
The worksheet includes ten complete-sentence rewrites with a different verb issue in each one. The examples cover progressive forms, perfect forms, agreement, helping verbs, and linking verbs. Long answer lines give students enough room to rewrite every sentence instead of making tiny edits. This page works well for verb review, editing practice, homework, or a grammar checkpoint.