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Past Simple Interrogative

Introduction
The past simple is the tense used to express situations, events and actions that happened in
the past.

When expressed in its interrogative form, it is used to ask questions about the past.

Form
The past simple of both regular and irregular* verbs in its interrogative form has this
structure:
Did + subject + verb + …?

Did is the past form of the verb do.

Question
Did Subject Verb
Mark
Did I work …?
Did you work …?
Did he work …?
Did she work …?
Did it work …?
Did we work …?
Did you work …?
Did they work …?
*Questions and negatives of irregular verbs have the same structure as regular verbs.

Example
Did you plant some flowers?
Did she finish her task?
Did you sing in the church choir?
Did they play football at school?
Did he go to school last year?
Did they throw a party yesterday?

Use
We use past simple, in the interrogative form, to ask questions about:

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actions, situations and events that occurred and finished in the past;
repeated events and habits that took place in the past;
past events and with time expressions such as: two weeks ago, last year, in 2010, yesterday…

Related
The past simple in its interrogative form is used to ask about situations, events, and actions
that happened in the past. You can also deny somethin in Negative form [1] and confirm
something in Interrogative form [2].

In English, if you want to speak about something that was happening in a past period of time,
you can use the past continuous. [3]

At B1 level, you can learn more about past perfect [4].

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[2] Interrogative form: https://open.books4languages.com/english-a1-grammar
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[3] past continuous.: https://open.books4languages.com/english-a2-grammar/chapter
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[4] past perfect: https://open.books4languages.com/english-b1-grammar/chapter
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