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Simple past tense
The document provides information about using the simple past tense in English, including: - The simple past tense is used to talk about completed actions in the past. - Regular verbs are conjugated by adding "-ed" and irregular verbs have unique past forms. - The past tense of the verb "to be" is "was" or "were". - Questions in the past tense can be formed using "did" plus the base verb form or by using "was"/"were". - Examples are given of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences in the simple past tense.
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Simple past tense
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- 5. Past simple –Completeaction in the past – More time expressions I received some letters yesterday
- 6. Simple Past Tense(1) Weuse this tense to talk about things that happened in the past. People used oil lamps in the evenings fifty years ago. Grandpa played with marbles when he was young.
- 7. Verb BE: Ifthere is no action in the sentence, we use ‘was’ or ‘were’ as the verb.am was is Are were was / were I was short. You were short. There were not (weren’t) any air-cons.
- 8. This tense hasonly one word. Regular verbs Irregular verbs There are two kinds of past tense verbs: Simple Past Tense(2)
- 9. Regular verbs Spelling rulesExamples base form + ed walk walked play played verbs ending in -e + d like liked move moved carry carried study studied verbs ending in a consonant + y change y i + ed Some verbs ending in a single consonant + the second last letter is a vowel double the last letter + ed plan planned stop stopped
- 11. Spelling rules Examples nochange in base form put put cut cut Irregular verbs different spelling from the base form go went eat ate wear wore come came
- 12. Base Form SimplePast Tense wear ride use go have try shop enjoy take Practice wore rode used went had tried shopped enjoyed took
- 14. SUBJECT MAIN VERB/Simple past form RESTOF SENTENCE SUBJECT AUXILIARY VERB DID/ NOT (didn’t) MAIN VERB/ Simple present form REST OF SENTENCE QUESTI ON WORD AUXILIARY VERB (DID) SUBJECT MAIN VERB /Simple present form REST OF SENTENCE Interrogative sentences Affirmative sentences Negative sentences What TV show did you watch yesterday? You watched TV yesterday. She didn’t watch TV last night.
- 15. We use ‘did’ to make questions. Don’t change the verb after did. Questions Did you he she people surf the Net go to school wear trainers yesterday? last Monday? 50 years ago? Yes, I he she theyNo, did. didn’t.
- 16. Questions We can alsouse was or were to make questions. Yes, there No, was. wasn’t. Was there any 50 years ago? when you were young? fast food cola uncountable nouns
- 17. Yes, I did. Didyou eat dim sum when you were young, Grandma? eat dim sum?
- 18. No, I didn’t. Didyou watch TV when you were young, Grandma? watch TV?
- 19. No, I didn’t. Didyou use computers when you were young, Grandma? use computers?
- 20. Create your ownsentences Example : 1. last night… My father and John watched the football match last night. 2. yesterday ? Did you buy the yellow T-shirt in Lily Shopping Centre yesterday ? . 1. last week… ________________________________________________________________ 2. ten years ago… _______________________________________________________________ 3. last Christmas ? ________________________________________________________________ 4. last Sunday ? ________________________________________________________________
- 21. 1. What didyou do last night? Examples: 2. Where were you last night at 8:00p.m.? I saw a movie. I ate ……. I slept. Did you watch The Conjuring 2 last night? Yes, I did No I didn’t Example: I was at home/work/the movies…