PAST SIMPLE IN

ENGLISH
USE
1. We use the past simple tense for actions that started and
finished in the past.

Ex:

-I ate sea food yesterday

-They broke up
-He loved me
For the past simple some temporal
words are necessary to express
exactly when an action happened.
TEMPORAL
Ex: WORDS IN
PAST
-I went to the cinema the Monday
-She turned 15 the last week
- Did you go to the party the last
weekend?
 Some minutes/hours/days/weeks ago

An hour/a week/a month/a year ago

Yesterday
TEMPORAL The day before yesterday
WORDS IN Lastnight / the last night
PAST LIST The previous night

The last week/month/year/season/vacation

Last week/month/year/season/vacation
STRUCTURES
Of course we don’t use past simple just for saying that
something happenned in the past, we also use it for saying
that something didn’t happen or asking if that happenned:

1. AFFIRMATIVE FORM
2. NEGATIVE FORM
3. INTERROGATIVE FORM
 WAIT!
AS WELL AS IN THE PRESENT SIMPLE WE NEED
TO IDENTIFY THE COLUMNS OF THE VERBS,
HERE WE NEED TO KNOW WHICH OF THEM WE
WILL USE.
REGULAR
IRREGULAR
AFFIRMATIVE FORM

SUBJECT + VERB IN PAST + COMPLEMENT

Ex:
I + studied + systems

She studied Systems

He studied Systems
We studied Systems
 NEGATIVE FORM

SUBJECT + PAST AUXILIARY VERB +NOT+VERB IN PRESENT + COMPLEMENT

Ex:
I + did + not + study + systems

She didn’t study Systems

He didn’t study Systems
We didn’t study Systems
 INTERROGATIVE FORM

PAST AUXILIARY VERB + SUBJECT + VERB IN PRESENT + COMPLEMENT + ?

Ex:
Did + I + study + systems+?

Did she study Systems?

Did he study Systems?
Did we study Systems?