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    The document discusses the simple past tense in English grammar. It provides examples of how to form the simple past of regular and irregular verbs. It also discusses using the simple past to describe actions that happened at a specific time in the past and examples of signal words that indicate the simple past, such as ago, last, and time periods. Questions in the simple past are formed with "did" plus the subject and infinitive. The simple past of "to be" verbs is also covered.

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    The document discusses the simple past tense in English grammar. It provides examples of how to form the simple past of regular and irregular verbs. It also discusses using the simple past to describe actions that happened at a specific time in the past and examples of signal words that indicate the simple past, such as ago, last, and time periods. Questions in the simple past are formed with "did" plus the subject and infinitive. The simple past of "to be" verbs is also covered.

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    The document discusses the simple past tense in English grammar. It provides examples of how to form the simple past of regular and irregular verbs. It also discusses using the simple past to describe actions that happened at a specific time in the past and examples of signal words that indicate the simple past, such as ago, last, and time periods. Questions in the simple past are formed with "did" plus the subject and infinitive. The simple past of "to be" verbs is also covered.

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    Simple Past - English grammar

    name: …………………............. class: …………… date: ……………................

    Simple past rules, examples

    The Simple past describes a completed action in a time before now and things that happen one
    after another in the past.

    1. Examples: Simple Past

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

    2. Actions at a specific time

    Simple Past: Actions that happened at a specific time in the past.

    3. Examples simple past tense:

    I got a present yesterday. I had in great time in America last year.

    4. Simple past regular verbs

    Add -ed to the regular verb. look - looked, watch - watched,


    Some verbs you need to change a bit.

    Verb ending in... Add ... Example

    -e only add - d live - lived


    date - dated

    Consonant +y Change y to i an add -ed carry - carried


    cry - cried

    1 vowel + 1 consonant Double consonant and stop - stopped


    add -ed

    5. Simple Past regular verbs – examples

    Add -ed to the regular verb.

    .
    Simple Past - English grammar

    name: …………………............. class: …………… date: ……………................

    cook - cooked, play - played, wash - washed


    -e at the end of the verb: only add -d.
    love - loved, live - lived, close - closed, live – lived

    6. Simple past irregular (not regular) verbs

    Some verbs are not regular. You have to learn them by heart.

    Example: Simple Past tense - irregular verbs:

    begin - began fall - fell


    break - broke forget - forgot
    come - came get - got
    drink - drank speak - spoke

    7. To be - Simple past

    Example: Simple Past tense - irregular verbs: to be

    Simple present Simple past


    I am I was
    you are you were
    he/she/it is he/she/it was
    we are we were
    you are you were
    they are they were

    8. Simple past signal words

    Use the simple past when you say when something happened. See the following signal
    words:
    frequency: often, sometimes, always
    We sometimes had no school.
    a definite point in time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
    They were in London last week.
    Simple Past - English grammar

    name: …………………............. class: …………… date: ……………................

    an indefinite point in time: the other day, ages ago, a long time
    ago
    He learned English when he was young.
    More simple past signal words: ago, in 2011, in 1999, ... last month, last week, last year,
    yesterday.

    Examples: Simple Past signal words

    I ate oranges last year.


    We went to school eyery day in 1999. He
    took his dog for a walk a month ago.

    9. Simple past - questions

    To form a question: 'did' + subject + infinitive.

    Examples: questions Simple Past

    I ate oranges in 2011. Did I eat oranges in 2011?


    We went to school last week. Did we go to school last week?
    He took his dog for a walk last week. Did he take his dog for a walk last week?

    10. Questions with was/were

    Sentences with 'to be' (was/were). Questions with was/were -Simple Past.

    She was in London. Was she in London? They


    were at the station. Were they at the station?

    11. Simple past negative

    Negative sentences Simple Past: examples


    I knew Covent Garden? I didn't know Covent Garden.
    We went to school eyery day. We didn't go to school every day.
    He took his dog for a walk. He didn't take his dog for a walk.

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