SIMPLE PAST.

The Simple PAST is used:

Activities finished in the past (usually including a time frame).

Grammatical Rules
To form the past simple with regular verbs, we use the infinitive and add the
ending "-ed".
Example:
Infinitive verbs Past simple verbs
Want Wanted
Learn learned
Stay stayed
Walk Walked
show showed
 Exceptions
1. For verbs that end in an “e”, we just add “-d”.
change → changed
believe → believed
2. If the verb ends in a short vowel and a consonant (except “y” or “w”), we double the
final consonant.
stop → stopped
commit → committed
3. With verbs ending in a consonant and a “y”, the “y” is changed to an “i”.
study → studied
try → tried
 Exceptions
In the simple past, there are also irregular verbs.
Example of some irregular verbs.

Infinitive Past simple

Be Was / Were
Bear Bore
Beat Beat
Become Became
Buy Bought
 The Simple PAST is used:
Activities finished in the past (usually including a time frame).

Structure:
It consists of the following elements

Verb
Subject + + Complement
Simple Past

He worked late night

She was a doctor
 Forms
How to form

Affirmative Sentences Negative Sentences 

Verb Auxiliar verb Verb
Subject + + Complement Subject Complement
Simple Past + (to do) + not + Infinitive +
Simple past
I played the weekend
You played the weekend I did not want to dance.
He played the weekend You did not want to dance.
She played the weekend He did not want to dance.
It played the weekend She did not want to dance.
We played the weekend It did not want to dance.
You played the weekend We did not want to dance.
They played the weekend You did not want to dance.
They did not Want to dance.
 Forms

Affirmative Sentences 
Auxiliar verb
(to do) + Subject + Verb + Complement
Infinitive
Simple past
did I learn English?
did You learn English?
did He learn English?
did She learn English?
did It learn English?
did We learn English?
did You learn English?
did They learn English?
Clue Words
• Every • Often
• Every day • Sometimes
• Every morning • Never
• Every weekend • Rarely
• Always
• Usually
 Uses
1. The simple past is used to talk about a specific action that started and ended in the past. Basically we use it with adverbs of time like "last
year", "yesterday", "last night".
Examples:
Tom stayed at home last night.
Kate worked last Saturday.
2. The simple past is used for a series of actions in the past.
Examples:
I received the good news and immediately called my husband.
I studied for an hour in the morning, worked all afternoon and didn’t return home until 10 at night.
3. We also use it for repeated or habitual actions in the past, as the Spanish past tense is used.
Examples:
We always traveled to Cancun for vacation when we were young.
I have walked 5 kilometers every day to work.
 Uses
4. |
I worked for many years in a museum.
She didn't eat meat for years.

5. It is used to talk about generalities or past events.

Examples:
The Aztec lived in Mexico.
I played the guitar when I was a child.