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Simple Past
Past Simple by Gloria Callejas Barrera is licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional License.
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To talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the past. You use a time expression. (yesterday, last month.)
It can be used to describe events that happened over a period of time in the past.
It is also used to talk about habitual or repeated actions that took place in the past.
WHEN WE USE PAST SIMPLE:
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TIME EXPRESSIONS
* Yesterday, last week, last month, last year, last time, … ago, in 1994,etc.
We cooked sushi 2 years ago.
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* Affirmative:
The past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding –d or –ed to the verb.
PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR VERBS
I worked hard in my English class.
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REGULAR VERBS We add -ed at the end of the verb:
Talk → talked
- If the verb ends in “e”, we only add -d:
Live → lived
- When the verb ends in vowel + consonant we double the last consonant:
Stop → stopped
- When the verb ends in consonant + y, we change the “y” and add -ied:
Study → studied
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IRREGULAR VERBS
Affirmative:
Irregular past verb forms must be learned because they don’t follow any rule:
* Go went
* Come came
* Buy bought
* Drink drank
* Eat ate
* Find found
* See saw I went to El Tajín last Summer holidays.
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IRREGULAR VERBS
Negative.Use did not or didn’t + bare infinitive to make the past simple tense negative.
I didn’t play football last week.
I didn’t cook the dinner last night.
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Interrogative:
We use did + subject + a bare infinitive of the verb to make the past simple interrogative.
- Did you go on holidays last summer?
- - Did you take any Language course the last semester?
REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS