PAST SIMPLE

REGULAR VERBS

PRESENTPAST

listen

play

watch

listen ed

watch

played

ed

He

He

He

Yesterday…

ed

ed

PAST

listen

watch

played

He

He

He

his favorite song

football

television

yesterday.

yesterday afternoon.

yesterday evening.

1.To form the past simple of regular verbs we add ed

RULES

RULES

2.- If a verb ends in _e

-like-love-hate

-arrive-move-dance

We add «d»

-liked-loved-hated

-arrived-moved-danced

RULES

3.- If a verb ends in consonant + y

-cry-copy-study

-try

We add «ied»

-cried-copied-studied

-triedDon’t use this rule: vowel + y -enjoy enjoied enjoyed

- play plaied played

RULES4.- If one-syllable verbs

ends in consonant+vowel+con

sonant

-stop-plan-clap

We double the last consonant

-stopped-planned-clapped-begged

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