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The Simple Past Tense
Yesterday I went for a swim.
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Affirmative:The past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding –d or –ed to the base form of the verb. I worked in a shop last year, I lived in a big house when I was younger.
PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR VERBS
I worked hard last weekend
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ED Formation- We add -ed at the end of the verb:
Walk → walked
- If the verb ends in “e”, we only add -d:
Live → lived
- When the verb ends in consonant+vowel+consonant we double the last consonant:
Stop → stopped
- When the verb ends in consonant+y, we remove the “y” and add -ied:
Study → studied
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Simple Past Tense: 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 Paris last July
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PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR and IRREGULAR VERBS
Negative: Use did not or didn’t + a base form verb to make the past simple tense negative. I didn’t work last summer
I didn’t live in a flat during my last Summer holidays.
I didn’t go to Berlin last July
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Interrogative:
Use did + subject + a base form verb to make the past simple interrogative. Did you play sport last Summer?
Did you travel by boat last holidays?
Yes, I did.
Did you see any dolphins?
No I didn’t.
PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR and IRREGULAR VERBS
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Past simple tense:
AffirmativeRegular verbs
NegativeQuestions
Short answer
Short answer
I worked. I didn't work. Did I work? Yes, I did. No, I didn't.
He worked. He didn't work. Did he work? Yes, he did.
No, he didn't.
She worked. She didn't work. Did she work? Yes, she did.
No, she didn't.
It worked. It didn't work. Did it work? Yes, it did.
No, it didn't.
You worked. You didn't work. Did you work? Yes you did.
No, you didn't.
We worked. We didn't work. Did we work? Yes we did.
No, we didn't.
They worked. They didn't work. Did they work? Yes they did.
No,they didn't.
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1.To talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the past. You state when it happened using a time adverb (yesterday, last Mont.):“Last year I took my exams”.
2. It can be used to describe events that happened over a period of time in the past but not now:"I lived in Asia for two years."
3. It is also used to talk about habitual or repeated actions that took place in the past:"When I was a child we always went to the seaside on bank holidays."
The Simple Past Tense is used
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Time expressions:
Yesterday, last month, last year, last time, … ago, in ...
The Simple Past Tense
My friends travelled to Saudi Arabia two years ago
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Past continuous tense
The farmer was working at
6 o’clock yesterday evening
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Past continuous tense
I was
playing
You
We
They
were
He
She
It
was
AFFIRMATIVE: Play
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Past continuous tense
Was the teacher explaining grammar at schoollast Monday?No, she wasn’t. She was explaining Geography.
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Past continuous tense
was I
playing?
were
you
we
they
was
he
she
it
I
Was not
Wasn’t
playing
You
We
They
were not
weren’t
He
She
It
was not
wasn’t
INTERROGATIVE: Play NEGATIVE: Play
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Uses of the past continuous
1-We use the past continuous tense to describe a past action over a period of time
"What were they doing yesterday at 8 0’clock?" "They were working all day.
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This time yesterday the hairdresser was working
2-We use the past continuous to say that somebody was in the middle of doing something at a certain time.
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3-Past simple and past continuous are used together when something happened in the
middle of something else
The policeman broke his ankle while he was running after the dog
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Compare the past continuous (I was doing) and past simple (I did):
Past continuous (in the middle of an action)
I was walking home when I met Dave. (in the middle of walking home)
Ann was watching television when the phone rang.
Past simple (complete action)
I walked home after the party last night.
Ann watched televison a lot when she was ill last year
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Past continuous tense
Time expressions:
While, as, when.
While the band was playing a mobile phone rang