Simple Past Tense

How do we form the simple past tense? English has two types of verbs in the past: -regular -irregular

Regular Verbs Most verbs ( + ed) walk → walked play → played Verbs ending in e (+d) live → lived use → used Verbs ending in a consonant + y (-y + ied) (consonant: p, t, r, etc) cry → cried carry → carried Short verbs ending in a vowel + a consonant (vowel: a, e, i, o, u) (double the consonant + y) stop → stoppedshop → shopped

Let’s read the following list of past tense verbs….. Which are regular and which are irregular? walkedregular studiedregular taughtirregular gaveirregular became irregular criedregular livedregular didirregular

Irregular Verbs) NNo change cost → costput → put CChange the vowel or the consonant come → camering → rang make → madesit → sat CChange the whole word buy → boughtdo → did

Other irregular verbs have a different kind of change…..you need to memorize these! teach bring leave hear buy taught brought left heard bought

Usage 1. Use the Past Simple to express an action that started and finished at a specific time in the past.. Examples: II saw a movie yesterday. LLast year, I traveled to Japan. DDid you have dinner last night? SShe washed her car two hours ago.

Time Expressions

I You He She It We You They worked in the garden yesterday. danced at the party last night. carried the heavy box. bought new shoes. FORM

Questions We add “Did” before the subject and put a “ ? ” at the end to form question.  Did you have breakfast this morning?  Did you wash the dishes last night?  Did you bring the umbrella?

Negative Form NNegatives in the Simple Past are formed by adding didn't or did not before the simple form of the verb. TThe girl didn’t come to school yesterday. TThe parents didn’t work on Sunday. TThe baby didn’t drink milk in the morning. SubjectdidnotV 1 Rest of the sentence

I You He She It We You They didn’t play tennis last weekend. didn’t clean the windows. didn’t go the dentist. NEGATIVE FORM

Negative Sentences We add “did not” before the main verb to form negative sentence. (did not = didn’t)  I did not see Sandy this morning.  John did not go to church last Sunday.  David did not watch TV last night.

Questions Yes / No Question DDid Nevo see his grandparents yesterday? Wh – Non – Subject Question WWhere did you spend your holidays? Wh – Subject Question WWho wrote this beautiful poem? Did Who / What Wh - word Rest of the sentence V 1 Subject ? SubjectV 1 Rest of the sentence ? V 2 Rest of the sentence ? did