1. Simple Past Tense: Regular and Irregular Verbs
In this Tutorial you will learn: 1- The Affirmative Statements 2- The Negative Statements 3- Yes/ No Questions. 4- Short answers. 5- WH-Questions

2. Use the simple past tense to talk about actions, states, or situations that are now finished.
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Future
Past
He traveled to Japan

3. Examples She was born in Mexico city. She lived in Chicago
She was very shy.
She taught Spanish in 1970s.

4. You can use the simple past tense with time expression that refer to the past such as last week , by 1681, in the seventeenth century, or 10 years ago.

5. Click here to watch a video and listen to people use simple past in their speech

6. Remember the simple past of regular verbs is formed by adding –d or –ed .
Be careful ! There are often spelling changes when you add –d or –ed to the verb
Base Form
Simple Past
Live
Lived
Join
Joined
Study
Studies
Hop
Hopped
Prefer
preferred

7. Many common English verbs are irregular( their past tense is not formed by adding –d or –ed. See Appendix A for a list of irregular verbs.
Base Form
Simple Past Be
Was/were
Build
Built
Have
Had
Get
Got Go
went

8. AFFIRMATIVE STATMENTS
Subject
verb I
Moved
Traveled
To Japan.
You He
She It
Came*
Left*
In 1684. We
They
Come (came) and leave (left) are irregular verbs. See Appendix A for a list of irregular verbs

9. NEGATIVE STATMENTS Subject DID NOT Base Form of Verb I didn’t Move
Travel
To Japan.
You He
She It
Come
Leave
In 1684. We
They

10. Yes/No Questions Did Subject Base Form of Verb I Move Travel To Japan?
You He
She It
Come
Leave
In 1684? We
They

11. Short answer Affirmative Yes, I did. You He She It We They Negative
No, I
didn’t.
You He
She It We
They

12. WH- Questions Wh- Word Did Subject Base Form of Verb When Why did I
Move
Travel
To Japan?
You He
She It
Come?
Leave? We
They

13. Click here to go back to the lesson
Appendix A
this link will take you to Irregular Verb Dictionary page
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14. References
Marjorie Fuchs, Focus on Grammar. s.html