Simple Past rules

Simple Past Rules

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[Simple Past - Examples and rules - English tenses
[simple Past

Examples: Simple Past

First read a book, then I went to bed yesterday evening
Last week I came to a church and then I took the road right.

Isimpie Past describes an action started and finished at a

Examples:

Bob got a bike
Mr Thompson had a great time in America

ISimple Past - regular verbs

Regular verbs make their past tense by adding -4, ed, or (ifthe verb ends in a
consonant + y), changing the y to and adding “ed

[special notes

Verb ending... add Examples
ls Bas ‘à live = Ived.
bake - baked
consonant + y Change y to ¡and add ed carry - carried
ery cried
It vowel + 1 consonant Double consonant and Sto] -stoled
add ed

[simple Past - irregular verbs
examples: Simple Past tense Irregular verbs:

[Present - Past Present.

begin fal
forget -
get
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Examples Simple Past

Late oranges
We went to school eyery day
He took his dog for a walk a month

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‘did’ + usubject +

Examples: Simple Past questions
1 ate apple in 2005. Did Y in 2005?

o London last week, Did we go to London last week?
He took his dog for a walk last week, Did he take his dog for a walk last week?

[simple Past - questions with was/were

Examples:

She was in London. Was she in London?
They were at the station. hey at the station?

[Simple Past negative
not go.
Examples:

Threw Covent Garden? 1 did know Covent Garden,
We went to school eyery day. We didn’t go to school every day

He took his dog fora walk. He didn't take his dog for a walk

[simple Past - "to be" negative form
positwe [negative

long form

was not
ere not
were not