2. SIMPLE PAST – REGULAR VERBS
• The past simple is the most common way of talking
about past events or states which have finished. It is
often used with past time references (e.g. yesterday,
two years ago).
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7. TWO KINDS OF VERBS
• REGULAR
PRESENT
WALK
DANCE
WORK
PLAY
JUMP
• IRREGULAR
PRESENT
DO
DRIVE
BUY
GO
EAT
PAST
WALKED
DANCED
WORKED
PLAYED
JUMPED
PAST
DID
DROVE
BOUGHT
WENT
ATE
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10. • Special cases of the -ed forms:
• Follow these rules when there is a consonant after a vowel (stop, ban, open,
offer...)
• If there is a consonant after a stressed vowel at the end of the word, double the
consonant
stop – stopped
ban - banned
swap - swapped
• If the vowel is not stressed, we do not double it:
open - opened (Here the stress is on'o', not the 'e'.)
offer - offered ( Here the stress is on 'o', not the 'e'.)
11. • In British English we double the last 'l' of words like travel, cancel
and level even though the last vowel is not stressed. Here are some
examples:
• travel - travelled
• cancel - cancelled
• level - levelled
• marvel - marvelled
