Past Simple: Verb “to be”

Read the sentences: Complete:

 Affirmative
 How was the
I/He/She/It was
weekend? You/We/They were
 It was fantastic.
 Negative

 Were you at home I/He/She/It wasn’t (was not)

yesterday? You/We/They weren’t (were not)
 No, I wasn’t.  Interrogative

Was I/he/she/It?
Were you/we/they?
Past Simple: Regular Verbs
 Affirmative
I visited my grandparents
Subject + verb + ed

 Negative
I didn’t visit my grandparents
Subject + do in the Past Simple + not + main verb in the infinitive

 Interrogative
Did I visit my grandparents?
Do in the Past Simple + subject + main verb in the infinitive
Past Simple: Irregular Verbs
Other Irregular Verbs:
 Affirmative:
Affirmative Buy ⇒bought
They went to Hastings. Read ⇒ read
Subject + verb in the Past Tense
Write ⇒ wrote
 Negative:
Negative Find ⇒ found
They didn’t go to Hastings.
Subject + do in the Past Simple + not + main verb in
Come ⇒ came
the infinitive
Bring ⇒ brought
Have ⇒ had
 Interrogative Feel ⇒ felt
Did they go to Hastings? Spend ⇒ spent
Do in the Past Simple + subject + main verb in the
infinitive Give ⇒ gave
Forget ⇒ forgot
Past Simple: Use
We use the Past Simple to:

 Describe something that happened at a specific

time in the past.
 Describe habitual actions in the past.

Past time adverbials:

 Last day/week/month/year/century
 Ago
 Yesterday
Past Simple: Other Rules
 verbs ending in –e: phone ⇒ phoned
 verbs ending in –l: travel ⇒ travelled
 One syllable verbs ending in vowel +
consonant: stop ⇒ stopped
 Verbs ending in consonant + y:
study ⇒ studied
 Verbs ending in vowel + y: play ⇒ played