Recounts are a way of retelling an important event or describing an experience that you have had to others, such as a school trip or a funny story.

Past Tense

Recounts are written in the past tense because you are writing about something that has already happened.

Lots of verbs change when you write them in the past tense. Adding 'ed' to the end of many verbs makes them past tense. In others, just a few…