This document provides information about the past simple tense in English. It defines the past simple as describing actions that took place at a certain time in the past. It then discusses the features of the past simple tense, including that it indicates a specific past time and uses past verb forms. Examples of using the past simple to refer to completed past events are also provided. The document goes on to explain the rules for regular and irregular past verb forms and provides lists of example regular and irregular verbs.

1. PAST SIMPLE
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Ministry of Popular Power for University Education
Polytechnic University Institute
“Santiago Mariño”
Porlamar, New Sparta Estate
Made by:
Jair Galindo
V-28.189.267
Teacher:
Cesar Velásquez
Section : 1B
Porlamar, July 2020

2. Past Simple
The past simple is one of the verb tenses present in
English. It describes those actions that took place at a
certain time in the past. The mention of the past refers
to actions that have already been carried out previously,
that is, they have already been carried out

3. Features
Among these we can highlight:
• Indicates the action peformed at a specific time in the past.
• The main verb of the sentence is always in the past tense.
• Has a simple “verb, subject and predicate” compassion.
• Is the only grammatical tense that uses verbs in the past
tense.
• Expressions that determine the time of the sentence can be
used in the predicate, although it will always be the verb that
indicates whether or not the sentence is in the past tense.

4. Applications
o It is used to refer to an event that occurrend in the past and usually
appears accompanied by a temporary expression that alludes to the
past “Yesterday and bought four books” (“Ayer compré cuatro
libros”).
o Actions that happened at a specific time in the past, either known or
implied.
o Action that started and ended in the past.
o Actions in the past that are not repeated in the present.
o Actions that happened at a specific time and have already ended.

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Regular
In case of regular verbs we have to:
 If the verb ends in a consonant “ed” must be
added.
 If the verb ends in “e” only add “d” at the end.
 If the regular verb ends in “y” and said letter is
preceded by a consonant, the “y” must be
changed by the particle “ied”.
 If the last syllable of the verb is where the
accent falls and it is made up os consonant-
vowel-consonant, said consonant must be
doubled and then add “ed”.
 If the verb ends in “l” it must be duplicated and
add “ed”.

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Irregular
 Irregular verbs are those that, to form the past
simple or the past participle ( compound
tenses) do not follow any norm, simply their
word changes completely.
 A very clear example is the auxiliary verb “do”
itself, since in the past simple it becomes “did”
and in the past participle “done”.

7. E
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Estructura de las oraciones afirmativa:
Pronoun/ subject + verb past form + complement + time
expression.
Estructura de las oraciones negativas:
Pronoun/ subject + aux. didn´t (did not) + verb present form +
complement + time expression.
Estructura de las oraciones interrogativas :
Aux. did + subject + verb present form + complement + time
expression + ?.
 Did you play soccer?
No, I did not play soccer.
Yes, I played soccer.
 Was Camila to the school this week?
No, Camila was to the school this week.
Yes, Camila was to the school this week.

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 Did Marcos run yesterday?
No, Marcos did not run yesterday
Yes, Marcos ran yesterday
 Daniel and his sister visited to
their cousins that live in
Kansas last week.
 Daniel and his sister didn´t
visit to their cousins that live
in Kansas last week.
 They travelled to Canada
 Did you eat pasta?
No, I didn´t eat pasta.
Yes, I ate pasta

9. LIST OF VERBS
Infinitive Simple
Past
Spanish
Arrive Arrived Llegar
Brush Brushed Cepillar
Close Colsed Cerrar
Dance Danced Bailar
Finish Finished Terminar
Infinitive Simple
Past
Spanish
Be Was/were Se
Do Did Hacer
Eat Ate Comer
Feel Felt Sentir
Have Had Tener
Regular Irregular

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