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    The document discusses the simple past tense in English. It provides rules for forming the simple past of regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs are made past tense by adding "ed" or "d", while irregular verbs have unique past tense forms. Examples of conjugating regular verbs like "work" and irregular verbs like "be" and "go" are given. The simple past is used to talk about actions or events that have been completed in the past.

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    The document discusses the simple past tense in English. It provides rules for forming the simple past of regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs are made past tense by adding "ed" or "d", while irregular verbs have unique past tense forms. Examples of conjugating regular verbs like "work" and irregular verbs like "be" and "go" are given. The simple past is used to talk about actions or events that have been completed in the past.

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    The document discusses the simple past tense in English. It provides rules for forming the simple past of regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs are made past tense by adding "ed" or "d", while irregular verbs have unique past tense forms. Examples of conjugating regular verbs like "work" and irregular verbs like "be" and "go" are given. The simple past is used to talk about actions or events that have been completed in the past.

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    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    1. Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action or situation started
    and finished at a specific time in the past. We use the simple past tense to talk
    about things that are now finished.

    Past.........X..................................Now...................................................Future
    He was a writer

    Examples:

    Edgar Allan was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic.
    Edgar Allan Poe lived in the nineteenth century.
    He wrote poetry.

    2. You can use the simple past tense with time expressions that refer to the
    past (last night, last Monday, last week, last month, last year, last summer, by
    1982, in the eighteenth century, three years ago, two days ago)

    Examples:

    By 1845, he was famous


    He died more than one hundred years ago.
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    3. The simple past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding (d ) or (ed).

    Examples:

    Simple form Simple Past

    Join joined
    Live lived
    Work Worked
    Play Played

    There are often spelling changes when you add –ed to the verb.

    Examples:

    Hop Hopped
    Carry Carried
    Prefer Preferred
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    Many common verbs are irregular. Their past tense is not formed by adding d or
    ed.

    Examples

    Be was / were
    Have had
    Get got
    Go went
    Think thought
    Drink drank
    Buy bought
    Drive drove
    Take took
    Eat ate
    Give gave
    Feel felt
    Know knew
    Make made
    Do did
    Wake woke
    Say Said
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE
    SPELLING RULES FOR THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE OF REGULAR VERBS
    (Taken form Grammar Express for Self Study and Clasroom Use by Marjorie Fuchs and Margaret Bonner, Longman)

    1. If the verbs ends in a consonant, add (ed).


    Return returned
    Help helped

    2. If the verb ends in (e), add (d)


    Live lived
    Create Created
    Die Died

    3. In one-syllable words, if the verb ends in a consonant vowel- consonant


    combinantion (CVC) double the final consonant and add (ed).
    CVC Hop Hopped
    Rub Rubbed

    However, do not double one-syllable words ending in (w, x or y)


    Bow Bowed
    Mix Mixed
    Play Played
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    SPELLING RULES FOR THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE OF REGULAR VERBS


    (Taken form Grammar Express for Self Study and Clasroom Use by Marjorie Fuchs and Margaret Bonner, Longman)

    4. In words of two or more syllables that end in a consonant-vowel-consonat


    combinantion, double the last consonant only if the last syllable is stressed.

    Prefer preferred (The last syllable is stressed, so you double the r )


    Visit visited (The last syllable isn’t stressed, so yo don’t double the
    t)

    5. If the verb ends in a consonant + y, change the y to i and add (ed)


    Worry worried
    Carry carried

    6. If the verb ends in a vowel + y, add (ed). (Don’t change the y to i )


    Play played
    Annoy annoyed

    Exceptions: Irregular verbs


    pay – paid lay – laid say - said
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    CONJUGATION OF REGULAR VERBS :

    Simple past of the Verb Work

    Affirmative form Negative Form Yes/ no questions Wh questions

    I worked I didn’t work Did I work? Where did you work?


    you worked You didn’t work Did you work? When did you work?
    He worked He didn’t work Did he work? Who did you work with?
    She worked She didn’t work Did she work? Why did you work?
    It worked It didn’t work Did it work? How did you work?
    We worked We didn’t work Did we work? What did you work?
    You worked You didn’t work Did you work?
    They worked They didn’t work Did they work?

    Examples:

    Yesterday, I worked with my boss until 8 pm. Affirmative


    Yesterday, I didn’t work with my boss. Negative
    Did you work with your boss yesterday? Y/N question
    Who did your work with yesterday? Wh question
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    CONJUGATION OF IRREGULAR VERBS :

    Simple past of verb Be

    Affirmative form Negative Form Yes/ no questions Wh questions

    I was I wasn’t Was I? How was I today?


    You were you weren’t Were you? Where were you?
    He was he wasn’t Was he? When was he here?
    She was she wasn’t Was she? Why was she happy?
    It was it wasn’t Was it? What was it?
    We were we weren’t Were we? Who were we with?
    You were you weren’t Were you?
    They were They weren’t Were they?

    Examples:

    Last night, I was in a very cool party. Affirmative


    We weren’t in London two years ago. Negative
    Was that you mother? Y/N question
    When were your born? Wh question
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    CONJUGATION OF IRREGULAR VERBS :

    Simple past of Verb Go

    Affirmative form Negative Form Yes/ no questions Wh questions

    I went I didn’t go Did I go? Where did you go?


    You went you didn’t go Did you go? Who did you go with?
    He went he didn’t go Did he go? Why did he go?
    She went she didn’t go Did she go? How did she go?
    It went it didn’t go Did it go? When did we go?
    We went we didn’t go Did we go?
    You went you didn’t go Did you go?
    They went they didn’t go Did they go?

    Examples:

    Last year I went to Italy. Affirmative


    We didn’t go to the university last fall. Negative
    Did you go to the library yesterday evening? Y/N question
    Where did they go? Wh question
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    MORE GRAMMAR REFERENCES

    1. http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/blwas.htm
    2. http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omverbs/verbtobe-past.htm
    3. http://www.theyellowpencil.com/gramatobepast.html
    4. http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html
    5. http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_past.htm
    6. http://www.aprenderinglesfacil.es/2008/04/pasado-simple-simple-past-
    tense.html
    7. http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/simple_past_use.htm
    SIMPLE PAST TENSE

    BIBLIOGRAPHY:

    1. Grammar Express :
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    xkZXBhcnRhbWVudG9sZW5ndWFzdWNlbnRyYWx8Z3g6MWI2ZWFmMDliMTJk
    ZDY5NQ

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