Simple Past Tense

The simple past tense is used to talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the past. You state when it happened using a time adverb. You form the simple past of a verb by adding -ed onto the end of a regular verb but, irregular verb forms have to be learned.

Past Tense of Verb To Be

To be Statements + I was. He was. She was. It was. You were. We were. They were. To be Statements I wasn't. He wasn't. She wasn't. It wasn't. You weren't. We weren't. They weren't. Questions ?

Was I? Was he? Was she? Was it? Were you? Were we? Were they?

Past Tense of Regular and Irregular verbs

Regular Verb (to work) Statements + I worked. He worked. Regular Verb (to work) Statements I didn't work. He didn't work. Short answer + Short answer -

Questions

Did I work? Did he work? Did she work?

Yes, I did. No, I didn't. Yes, he did. Yes, she did. No, he didn't. No, she didn't.

She worked. It worked. You worked. We worked.

She didn't work. It didn't work. You didn't work. We didn't work.

Did it work? Yes, it did. No, it didn't. Did you work? Did we Yes you did. Yes we No, you didn't. No, we

work? They worked. They didn't work. Did they work?

did. Yes they did.

didn't. No, they didn't.

Simple Past Timeline

For example: 1. "Last year I took my exams." (irregular verb) 2. "I got married in 1992." (irregular verb) It can be used to describe events that happened over a period of time in the past but not now. For example: 3. "I lived in South Africa for two years." (regular verb) The simple past tense is also used to talk about habitual or repeated actions that took place in the past. For example: 4. "When I was a child we always went to the seaside on bank holidays." (irregular verbs) 5. In present tense we used: Am / Is / Are The Simple past tense The verb in the past simple form can be REGULAR or IRREGULAR

Regular Verbs:

To from the irregular from we need to add ed to the infinitive form. For example: to watch - watched | to talk - talked | to wash - washed. Study the example:

Spelling rules

1) Maria played soccer last week. 2) Pedro and Juan watched TV yesterday 3) We studied for the test but we all failed. 4) They talked on the phone for two hours last night.

Irregular verbs

The past forms of the irregular forms DO NOT end in -ed. They have different forms and we need to learn them gradually. Here is a list to begin with:

Ohter time expressions

EXAMPLES 1. My brother was at school yesterday. 2. I was at home last night. 3. You didnt watch TV last week!