PAST TENSE

You will learn how to write sentences in the past tense

B.M.R

What happened yesterday in the

class?

What did you do at the weekend?

What did you do last night?

Where did you go last night?

What did you do last summer?

Did you play tennis last

week?

When you talk about actions in the past, you use the simple past tense.

Anything that you did few minutes ago, few hours ago, a day ago, a month ago, a year ago or years ago is discussed in the past tense.

Both regular and irregular verbs can be used in the simple past tense.

The simple past is used to describe an action that happened in the past,

and it was completed in the past.

For regular verbs, the simple past is formed by adding -ed to the base

form of the verb.

Base form + ed

WalkWalked

WantWanted

JumpJumped

StartStarted

EndEndedWork

Worked

LoveLoved

LiveLived

VisitVisited

Waitwaited

Creating simple past tense from regular verbs is easy. You add –ed or

–d to the end of regular verbs.

I lived in Riyadh.

He lived in England.

They lived in New York.

When the word ends in (e), you just add –d at the end

Use-used

Change-changed

Improve-improved

The simple past tense of all regular verbs is the same for all persons.

You will either use –ed or –d at the end of the base form for all

persons.

Work-worked

Singular Plural

I worked yesterday We worked yesterday

You worked yesterday You worked yesterday

She worked yesterday

He worked yesterday

It worked yesterday

They worked yesterday

Irregular Verb

The verb "be" is an irregular verb in the Simple Past. There are two Simple Past forms of

the verb be: "was" and "were.

Which one is the right form of the verb ―Be in the past tense.

I am in Guatemala last year.

I were in Guatemala last year.

I was in Guatemala last year.

QUESTIONS

Did + Subject + base form of the main verb

Did you dance yesterday?

Did he sing last week?

Did you drink Pepsi a minute ago?

Did they live in New York a year ago?