Past Simple

Affirmative:

To do an affirmative sentence, we have to put a subject plus a verb with -ed to pas the
verb to past verb, but there are the irregular verbs that I will explain in
another paragraph and the most irregular verb that is “to be”.

Subjects: I, you, we, they, he, she and it.

Verbs: played, studied, learned…

Examples: Aleix played Fortnite, Isolda studied English, Sira and Isolda learned
Math…

(We always put something after the verb, to complete the sentence)

Subject Regular i past Irregular in past Complements

I played football.

We swam in the swimming

pool.

They studied English.

She drew a house.

Negative:

To do a negative sentence, we have to put a subject plus didn’t plus verb, but there
are the irregular verbs that I will explain in another paragraph and the most irregular
verb that is “to be”.

Subjects: I, you, we, they, he, she and it

Negative: didn’t

Verbs: play, study, learn…

Examples: Sira didn’t play football, Aleix didn’t study Disseny Tecnològic, Aleix and
Isolda didn’t learn Maths…

(We always put something after the verb, to complete the sentence)

Subject Negative Regular Irregular Complements

I didn’t play football.

We didn’t swim in the swimming

pool.

They didn’t study English.

She didn’t draw a house.

Questions:

To do a question sentence, we put first the “wh question” plus did plus subjects plus
verbs and with the questions you can answer with large answer or short answer.

WH Questions: What, Why, When, Where, Who, Which and How

Interrogative: Did

Subjects: I, you, we, they, he, she and it

Verbs: play, study, learn…

Examples: What did Aleix play?, When did Oriol study?...

WH Questions Interrogative Subjects Verbs

What did you study?

Why did they learn?

Where did she play?

When did I study?

Regular and Irregular verbs:

The most common verbs, To go: He went to a club last night. To give: We gave her a
doll for her birthday. To come: My parents came to visit me last July.
The most of the verbs are regular, but there are the irregular verbs that don’t follow the
normal rules because in past simple they don’t have -ed only few letters changes:

Regular Irregular
Played Draw

Singed Came

Opened Brought

Jumped Given
Short answers:

We use short answers in English grammar to respond to yes/no questions, or to agree

with a statement.
In positive short answers, we have to put yes plus subjects plus auxiliary verbs:

Positive: Yes

Subjects: I, you, we, they, he, she and it

Auxiliary verbs: Can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might, and must

Examples: Yes, Aleix and Isolda would play football, Yes, Sira can study English...

And for the negative, short answers is no plus subject plus negated auxiliary verb:

Negative: No

Subjects: I, you, we, they, he, she and it

Negated auxiliary verbs: Can’t, couldn’t, won't, wouldn’t, shouldn’t, mayn’t and
mightn’t, mustn’t

Examples: No, Isolda can't play football, No Sira and Oriol don’t play football…

Positive:

Positive Subject Auxiliary verbs

Yes I can

Yes she is

Yes they are

Yes we did
Negative:

Negative Subjects Negated auxiliary verbs

No I didn’t

No they aren’t

No we can’t

No she isn’t

Time Expressions for the Past Simple:

The time expressions are the words that we use to talk about things that we have done
in the Past:

Time expressions: yesterday, a week (month, year) ago, last (month, year, weekend,
Monday) night, the day before yesterday, two days (months, years) ago

Subjects: I, you, we, they, he, she and it

Examples: Yesterday Sira bought a phone, Oriol was born 13 years ago…

(We add words at the end of the phrase to complement the phrase)

Time expressions Subjects Complement

Yesterday I was in Vic.

A week ago we bought a phone for all the

classmates.

Last month they went to Andorra.

The day before yesterday she was on the road.

Uses and Spelling rules:

The past simple is used when we talk about a thing that happened in a specific time in
the past. We can use the past simple when we talk about a thing that happened
without specific time, but we have to made clear that we are talking about a thing that
finished a long time ago. If a verb ends in -e, we add -d. If a verb ends in a vowel and
a consonant, we have to double the consonant before -ed. If a verb ends in a
consonant and -y, we put a “i” and we take off the “y” before the -ed. But if the word
ends in a vowel and -y, we add -ed.

Examples: Oriol play football - Oriol played football, Isolda wants to fly - Isolda flied
last month, Sira smiles every day - Sira smiled two times today, Aleix give a tip to me -
Aleix tipped me yesterday…

Normal Plus -d
Smile Smiled

Lie Lied

Normal Plus -ed

Kiss Kissed

Walk Walked

Normal Double the consonant

Stop Stopped

Hug Hugged

Normal Y no but I yes

Try Tried

Marry Married

Normal Vowel + Y
Play Played

Enjoy Enjoyed
 Webgraphie

Affirmative, Negative and Questions:

https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/thumbitem/Past-Simple-Tense-Cha
rt-3887708-1530282961/original-3887708-1.jpg

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-reference
/past-simple

Irregular verbs:
https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/simple-past-
tense/

Short answers:
https://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/sentences/short-answers

Time Expressions for the Past Simple:

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-reference
/when-time-dates

Uses and Spelling rules:

https://englishacademy101.com/modal-verbs/

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-use.html

https://www.britishcouncil.co/blog/aprende-ingles/past-simple