A1 Lesson 6
A1 Lesson 6
A1 Lesson 6
To understand the Simple Past, we can compare it to the Simple Present (the mechanism and
the rules). Simple Past: we use to talk about past facts, past routines, etc.
1st- In the simple present, there are three options for using the verb to be: Am (I), Are (you,
we, they), and Is (he, she or it). What happens in the simple past is that you replace ‘am’ and
‘is’ for was, and ‘are’ for were. See the table below with all the personal pronouns:
Now, let’s look at this example using the verb to be in the simple past in affirmatives, negatives
and interrogatives.
Note that the same rules that applied for the simple present and present continuous apply for
the simple past as well!
To use the regular verbs in the past tense we simply add ‘’ed, ied or d’’ at the end of the verb
in the present form. Examples:
There are some rules when it comes to spelling regular verbs in the simple past, regarding their
endings and the use of “ed, ied, or d”. Check it out on the table below:
Remember that in the simple present we used the auxiliary verb ‘do’ to compose negatives
and interrogatives? Well, the same thing applies here, except the verb ‘do’ and ‘does’ in the
past becomes did. Like this:
NOTE: when we have the auxiliary verb “Did” present in the sentence, it is not necessary to put
the verb in the past.
IRREGUAR VERBS
We have seen how to use the verb to be and regular verbs in the past, as well as making
negatives and interrogatives with them. Not all verbs in the English language are regular,
however. Some verbs like previously mentioned ‘do’ and ‘be’ are irregular, that is, they change
their form when written in the past tense, sometimes almost completely. Here are some
examples of commonly used irregular verbs.
GOING TO
Enough about the past, let’s talk about the future! We use “going to” to express the idea of
something in the future, but this is a previously planned action:
To compose negative and interrogatives we conjugated the verb ‘to be’ present in the
sentence, like this:
Negative: She is not (isn’t) going to an exchange program in the United Sates.
SEASONS
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