Simple Past Tense

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Simple Past Tense

• We use the simple past tense to talk about what
  happened at a definite time in the past.
• There are some common expressions we use
• yesterday,
• last night,
• a month ago,
• last week,
• yesterday afternoon, etc

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Regular Verbs (????)

• Most verbs ( ed)
• walk?walked play ?played
• Verbs ending in e (d)
• live ?lived use ?used
• Verbs ending in a consonant (??) y
• (-y ied) (consonant p, t,
  r, etc)
• cry ?cried carry ?carried
• Short verbs ending in a vowel (??) a consonant
  (vowel a, e, i, o, u)
• (double the consonant y)
• stop ?stopped shop ?shopped

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Irregular Verbs (?????)

• No change
• cost ?cost put ?put
• Change the vowel (??) or the consonant (??)
• come ?came ring ?rang
• make ?made sit ?sat
• Change the whole word
• buy ?bought do ?did

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Negative Sentences (???)

• We add did not before the main verb to
• form negative sentence. (did not didnt)
• I did not see Sandy this morning.
• John did not go to church last Sunday.
• David did not watch TV last night.

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Questions

• We add Did before the subject (??)
• and put a ? at the end to form question.
• Did you have breakfast this morning?
• Did you wash the dishes last night?
• Did you bring the umbrella?

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The Verb to be

• Statements
• I / He / She / It was very good.
• You / We / They were very smart.
• Questions
• Was I / he / she / it very good?
• Were you / we / they very smart?
• Negative sentences
• I / He / She / It was not very good.
• You / We / They were not very smart.

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