1. Tenses (III) –
Simple past

2. Use
• Things that are in the past and finished.
E.g:
- I dropped your camera. I’m sorry.
- I met my husband in 1989.
• Form:
– For irregular verbs, use the past form  2nd column
– For regular verbs, add –ed
EXCEPTIONS –ed
– After a final “e” only add –d.
E.g: love – loved
– Final consonant after a short, stressed vowel or “l” as final consonant
after a vowel is doubled.
E.g: admit – admitted / travel – travelled
– Final y after a consonant becomes “i”.
E.g: hurry – hurried

3. Use
• For negative and interrogative sentences  use auxiliary “do” in past DID.
• Signal words:
– yesterday
– 2 minutes ago
– in 1990
– the other day
– last Friday
– ...

4. Affirmative form
• Irregular verbs  2nd column
E.g: - I am  I was
• Regular verbs  add –ed (pay attention to exceptions)
E.g: - I play  I played

5. Negative form
• did not (subject + did not + verb infinitive (present) + ...)
E.g: - I didn’t play football.

6. Interrogative form
• Did (Did + subject + verb infinitive (present) + ...?)
E.g:
- Did you ever play football?
- Yes, I did. / No, I didn’t.