1. Regular and Irregular Verbs
PAST SIMPLE
Regular and Irregular Verbs

2. The Past Simple is used
For an action which started and finished at a specific time in the past. The time is mentioned or can be easily understood:
I played football yesterday.
For repeated or habitual actions in the past:
He often drove quickly when he was
young.

3. The Past Simple is used
For actions which happened one after the other in the past:
George got up very early yesterday.
He had breakfast, got dressed and left for
work.

4. worked came Affirmative
Form: The form of the past simple is the same for all persons (I,you,he,she,etc.)
Affirmative I
You He
She It We
They
worked
came

5. did not didn’t work come Negative
Form: The form of the past simple is the same for all persons (I,you,he,she,etc.)
Negative I
You He
She It We
They
did not
didn’t
work
come

6. work? Did come? Interrogative
Form: The form of the past simple is the same for all persons (I,you,he,she,etc.)
Interrogative
Did I
you he
she it we
they
work?
come?

7. Spelling of Regular verbs)
Verb + -ed (past tense)
wait – waited watch – watched
2. Verb + d
live – lived move – moved
3. Changing –y to –i
carry – carried
4. We don’t change –y to –i after a vowel
pray – prayed play - played
Exceptions: pay – paid say – said

8. Spelling of Regular verbs
5. Doubling final consonants
a) If a one-syllable word ends in one vowel
+ one consonant, we double the final
consonant before –ed
prefer – preferred admit – admitted
b) If the final syllable isn’t stressed, the
final consonant isn’t doubled.
open (‘open) – opened visit (‘visit) - visited
Exception: In British English, we double –l at
the end of a word even if the final syllable isn’t
stressed. travel (‘travel) – travelled
cancel (‘cancel) – cancelled

9. Irregular Verbs have different affirmative past simple forms
come  came
see  saw
go  went