SIMPLE PAST TENSE The simple past tense expresses an action in the past.

This action starts in the past and finishes in the past. - Mustafa Kemal Atatrk was born in Selanik in 1881. - I traveled to Mersin last year. - My father and I played table tennis yesterday. Form of Simple Past Regular verbs add ed to the end of the verb play played I played guitar yesterday. She played volleyball two days ago. They played tennis very well last week. learn learned We learned was/were on Monday. Pelin learned English in 2011. I learned tango dance. visit visited I visited my grandparents last weekend. Mary visited Etnografya Museum a week ago. Exceptions in adding "-ed" to the verb
after a final e only add d

Example
love - loved compare compared live - lived admit - admitted travel - travelled fit - fitted carry - carried study - studied copy - copied

final consonant after a short, stressed vowel or l as final consonant after a vowel is doubled

final y after a consonant becomes i

Irregular verbs

wake woke go went see saw

Signal Words of Simple Past Tense yesterday, 2 minutes ago, last year, in 1990, last friday..