The document discusses how to write sentences in the past tense. It explains that the simple past tense is used to describe actions that were completed in the past, such as yesterday, last week, last year, etc. For regular verbs, the simple past is formed by adding "-ed" to the base form of the verb. Some irregular verbs like "be" also have unique past tense forms - "was" and "were". Questions in the past tense are formed using "did" plus the subject and base form of the main verb, such as "Did you dance yesterday?".

1. PAST TENSE
You will learn how to write sentences in
the past tense
B.M.R

2. What happened
yesterday in the
class?
What did you do
at the weekend?
What did you do
last night?
Where did you
go last night?
What did you do
last summer?
Did you play
tennis last
week?

3. When you talk about actions in the past, you
use the simple past tense.
Anything that you did few minutes ago, few
hours ago, a day ago, a month ago, a year ago
or years ago is discussed in the past tense.
Both regular and irregular verbs can be used in
the simple past tense.

4. The simple past is used to describe an action that happened in the past, and it
was completed in the past.
For regular verbs, the simple past is formed by adding -ed to the base form of
the verb.
Base form + ed
Walk
Walked
Want
Wanted
Jump
Jumped
Start
Started
End
Ended
Work
Worked
Love
Loved
Live
Lived
Visit
Visited
Wait
waited

5. Creating simple past tense from regular verbs is easy. You add –ed
or –d to the end of regular verbs.
I lived in Riyadh.
He lived in England.
They lived in New York.
When the word ends in (e), you just add –d at the end
Use-used
Change-changed
Improve-improved

6. The simple past tense of all regular verbs is the same for all persons.
You will either use –ed or –d at the end of the base form for all
persons.
Work-worked
Singular Plural
I worked yesterday We worked yesterday
You worked yesterday You worked yesterday
She worked yesterday
He worked yesterday
It worked yesterday
They worked yesterday

7. Irregular Verb
The verb "be" is an irregular verb in the Simple Past. There are two Simple Past forms of
the verb be: "was" and "were.

8. Which one is the right form of the verb ―Be
in the past tense.
I am in Guatemala last year.
I were in Guatemala last year.
I was in Guatemala last year.

9. QUESTIONS
Did + Subject + base form of the main verb
Did you dance yesterday?
Did he sing last week?
Did you drink Pepsi a minute ago?
Did they live in New York a year ago?