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Simple Past Tense: Regular and Irregular Verbs
In this Tutorial you will learn: 1- The Affirmative Statements 2- The Negative Statements 3- Yes/ No Questions.4- Short answers.
5- WH-Questions
Use the simple past tensesimple past tense to talk about actions, states, or situations that are now finished.
Now
FuturePast ><
He traveled to Japan
ExamplesShe waswas born in Mexico city.She livedlived in ChicagoShe waswas very shy.She taughttaught Spanish in 1970s.
You can use the simple past tense with time expression that refer to the past such as last week , by 1681, in the seventeenth last week , by 1681, in the seventeenth century, century, oror 10 years ago. 10 years ago.
Click here to watch a video and listen to people use simple past in
their speech
Remember the simple past of regular verbs is formed by adding –d–d or –ed–ed .
Be careful ! There are often spelling changes when you add –d or –ed to the verb
Base Form Simple Past
Live Lived
Join Joined
Study Studies
Hop Hopped
Prefer preferred
Many common English verbs are irregular( their past tense is not formed by adding –d or –ed. See Appendix A for a list of irregular verbs.
Base Form Simple Past
Be Was/were
Build Built
Have Had
Get Got
Go went
Subject verb
I
Moved
Traveled
To Japan.You
He
She
It
Came*
Left*
In 1684.We
You
They
AFFIRMATIVE STATMENTS
Come (came) and leave (left) are irregular verbs. See Appendix A for a list of irregular verbs
Subject DID NOT Base Form of Verb
I
didn’t
Move
Travel
To Japan.
You
He
She
It
Come
Leave
In 1684.
We
You
They
NEGATIVE STATMENTS
Did Subject Base Form of Verb
Did
I
Move
Travel
To Japan?You
He
She
It
Come
Leave
In 1684?We
You
They
Yes/No Questions
Affirmative
Yes,
I
did.
You
He
She
It
We
You
They
Negative
No,
I
didn’t.
You
He
She
It
We
You
They
Short answer
Wh- Word
Did Subject Base Form of Verb
When
Why
did
I
Move
Travel
To Japan?
You
He
She
It
Come?
Leave?
We
You
They
WH- Questions
Appendix Athis link will take you to Irregular Verb Irregular Verb
DictionaryDictionary page
Click here to go back to the lesson
References Marjorie Fuchs, 1999. Focus on Grammar.
http://marzioschool.free.fr/34Did.rm
http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.html
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