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

-      Last week

-      Testerday afternoon, etc

Reguler Verbs

·         Most verbs (+ed)

Ex : walk-> walked     play-> played

·         Verbs ending in e (+d)

Ex : live-> lived       use-> used

·         Verbs ending in a consonant +y

(-y + ied)-> exeption

Ex : cry -> carried       carry -> carried

·         Short verbs ending in a vowel +a consonant

(vowel : a, e, i, o, u) (double the consonant +ed)

Ex : stop -> stopped       shop -> shopped

Ireguler verbs

Ø  No change

Cost -> cost        put -> put

Ø  Change the vowel or the consonant

Come-> came     ring -> rang

Make -> made    sit -> sat

Drink -> drank   swim -> swam

Sing -> sang

Ø  Change the whole word

Buy -> brought      do -> did

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Negative sentences

We add “ did not” before the main verb from negative sentence.

(did not = didn’t) example:

-      I did not see Sandy this morning

-      John did not go to Masjid last Sunday

-      David did not watch tv last night

-      Safira didn’t go to School

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Interrogative sentence

We add “ did” before the subject and put a “?” at the end to form question.

Example :

Did you have breakfast this morning?