PAST SIMPLE

GRAMMATICAL TENSES
By: Sofia Hernandez Gutierrez
 WHAT IS THE
PAST SIMPLE?
The simple past is a grammatical tense that
expresses situations or actions that occurred
in the past, and although they may be from
the recent past or the distant past, their
duration is not important; it should only be
understood that these have already ended.
REGULAR AND
IRREGULAR
VERBS
 REGULAR VERBS

When the simple past is formed, it is With verbs ending in a consonant

enough to add the ending -ED. and "y", the "Y" is changed by an

- Want→ wanted - Learn → learned

"I".

- Stay → stayed
- Walk → walked - Show →
Study → studied

showed
Try→ tried

For verbs ending in an "e", we only

If the verb ends in a short vowel and
add "-d".
a consonant (except "y" or "w"), we

Change → changed double the final consonant.

Believe → believed Stop → stopped

Commit →committed
 IRREGULAR VERBS EXAMPLES

As for irregular verbs, these do

not follow defined rules to form
the simple past so you have to
study them individually and
memorize them
 STRUCTURES
+ - ?
Subject + verb (past) + Subject + didn't + verb Did + subject + verb
(complement) (infinitive) + (infinitive) +

(complement) (complement)
We saw the accident in

slow motion I didn't see the red light Did he come for dinner


yesterday?

VERB TO BE
 HOW TO USE IT

WAS . . . WERE . . .
I, He, She, It You, We, They

- I was hungry this morning.

- You were in the garden yesterday.
- It was sunny yesterday.
- They were at the beach last
weekend
STRUCTURES
AFFIRMATIVE
Subjects + verb to be (was/were) + complement
I was at school.

NEGATIVE
Subject + verb to be (was/were) + not + complement
I was not late for school this morning.

INTERROGATIVE
Verb to be (was/were) + subject + complement +?
Where were your brother and sister last weekend?
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 REFERENCES
HTTPS://WWW.CURSO-
INGLES.COM/APRENDER/CURSOS/NIVEL-
INTERMEDIO/VERB-TENSES-PAST/PAST-SIMPLE
HTTPS://WWW.LEWOLANG.COM/GRAMATICA-
INGLESA/43/PAST-SIMPLE

HTTPS://LEARNENGLISHKIDS.BRITISHCOUNCIL.ORG
/GRAMMAR-PRACTICE/PAST-SIMPLE-VERB-BE