This document discusses the simple past tense in English. The simple past is used to talk about actions that are completed in the past. It can be used with time expressions like "last week" or "yesterday." Regular verbs are conjugated by adding "-ed" to the infinitive form. There are some exceptions for verbs ending in consonant-vowel-consonant or verbs ending in "y." Several examples are provided to demonstrate using the simple past tense with regular and irregular verbs.

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2. the simple past is a verb tense that
is used to talk about things that happened.
Imagine someone asks what your brother
Alan did while he was in town last
weekend.
Example: Alan entered a hula hoop
contest.
Example: He won the silver medal.
Unlike the past continuous tense,
which is used to talk about past events
that happened over a period of time, the
simple past tense emphasizes that the
action is finished.
You can also use the simple past to
talk about a past state of being, such as
the way someone felt about something.

3. • Uses
• 1. The simple past is used to talk about a concrete action that began
and ended in the past. In this case it is equivalent to the indefinite
Spanish preterit. Generally, we use it with adverbs of time such as
"last year", "yesterday", "last night" ...
• .
Examples:
Tom stayed home last night. (Tom stayed home last
night.)
Kate worked last Saturday (Kate worked last
Saturday).
I did not go to the party yesterday. (I did not go to
the party yesterday).
Did you walk to school this morning? (Have you
walked to school this morning?)
2. The past simple is used for a series of actions in
the past.
Examples:
He studied for an hour in the
morning, worked all afternoon and
did not return home until 10 at
night

4. • Form
• To form the simple past with regular verbs, use the infinitive
and add the ending "-ed“ want → wanted. The form is the
same for all people (me, you, he, she, he, us, them).
. For verbs that end in an "e",
we only add "-d".
Examples:
change → changed
believe → I believed
Exceptions:
If the verb ends in a
short vowel and a
consonant (except "y" or
"w"), we double the final
consonant.
Examples:
stop → stopped
commit → committed
With verbs that end in
a consonant and a "y",
the "y" is changed to
an "i".
Examples:
study → studied
try → tried

5. • Examples:
• learn → learned
• stay → stayed
• walk → walked
• show → showed
Simple past
tense
to be was (me,
him, her, that)
We were (you, us,
them)
Do
had

8. • Examples
• Did you work very hard last week? Yes, I did.
• Did she live in Japan last year? Yes, she did
• Did Mr. Green work with my uncle? No, he didn’t.
• Did he work in his garden yesterday? No, he didn’t.
• Did he study for his English class? No, he didn’t
• Did you watch television every night? No, I didn’t.
• Did they talk on the phone last week? No, they didn’t.
• Did she want to learn French? Yes, she wanted to learn French.
• Did they work together for many years? Yes, they worked together for
many years.
• Did you study in my class last semester? Yes, I studied in your class last
semester.
• Did we listen music until ten o’clock last night? No, we didn’t listen music
until ten o’clock last night.