USAGE

We use the simple past tense: 1. TIME ADVERBS:

1. Action that started and finished in the past:
- In + a date in the past
I met my friend yesterday.
Did you go to the seaside last summer? - Yesterday

2- Actions that happened one after the other in the past: - 2 minutes / hours / days / years ago
He opened the door, switched on the light and fed his cat.
- Last+ night, week, month, year, century…

3- Action taking place in the middle of another (longer) action:

He fell asleep while the teacher was explaining new grammar rules.

Affirmative

REGULAR VERBS IRREGULAR VERBS Verb TO BE

We call them regular because We have to learn them by  WAS

they have the same ending: heart.  I / HE / SHE / IT WAS
“ed” in their simple past and  NOUN (SG) WAS
The simple past is the second
past participle.  PROPER NOUN WAS
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We add “d” if the regular  WERE
- Break broke
verb ends in “e”.  WE / YOU/ THEY WERE
- Buy bought
FORM  NOUN (PL) WERE
- help helped
 NOUN AND NOUN WERE
- create created

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INTERROGATIVE

NEGATIVE DID + SUBJECT + INFINITIVE…?

The interrogative is made by putting the auxiliary before

SUBJECT + DID + NOT + INFINITIVE subject:

The negative is formed by putting:  DID + SUBJECT + INFINITIVE +…?

Sara went to the supermarket
 DID + NOT + INFINITIVE
Did Sara go the supermarket?
Yesterday, I went to the supermarket

Yesterday, I didn’t go to the supermarket.

If a verb ends in a
consonant + y,
CONTRACTIONS the y changes to i
before the ending
–ed: hurry - hurried
➨ DID NOT = DIDN’T
study - studied
If a verb ends Consonant+ vowel+
in –e, we add consonant :
–d: dance double consonant
REGULAR VERBS
- danced
Stop : stopped

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