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Examples:
3. Did you add flour, pour in the milk, and then add the eggs?
The Simple Past can also be used to describe a stopped in the
past. It can have the same meaning habit which as "used to."
To make it clear that we are talking about a habit, we often add
expressions such as: often, usually, never, when I was a child,
when I was younger, etc.
Examples:
1. I studied French when I was a child.
2. He played the violin.
3. He didn't play the piano.
4. Did you play a musical instrument when you were a kid?
5. She worked at the movie theater after school.
6. They never went to school, they always skipped class
Forming Simple past tense
Verb ending in e How to make Examples
Forming the simple past the simple
past
tense live - lived
Add -D date - dated
1. The building fell down = Where did the building fall down?
2. They lived in Vancouver = Where did they live?
3. The store was closed = Why was the store close?
4. They were wolves = What were they?
Irregular verbs
Irregular verbs fall into three main categories:
1. Verbs which don't change.
For examples: cut - cut
hit - hit
fit – fit