1. REPÚBLICA BOLIVARIANA DE VENEZUELA
MINISTERIO DEL PODER POPULAR PARA LA EDUCACIÓN
UNIVERSITARIA
INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO POLITÉCNICO “ SANTIAGO MARIÑO”
EXTENSIÓN MÉRIDA
ESCUELA INGENIERIA CIVIL
SIMPLE PAST
Mérida, Noviembre 2014
Otto Araujo
C.I V-18.798.987

2. THE SIMPLE PAST
Regular Verbs
Affirmative
Irregular Verbs
We Did not
Play
We Played
Don´t add Ed
Used to refer to actions or
situations of the past
Negative
Ed Auxiliary Did
Examples Examples
Examples
Present Past
Eat Ate
Write Wrote
Common problems
with the past tense
Using the present
tense when the past
tense is required
Using "was" with
verbs in the past
tense
Incorrect: It was
happened one
night in September
Correct: It
happened one
night in September
Incorrect: My
grandfather has
died last year
Correct: My
grandfather died
last year