Past Simple

Summary
• We use The Past Simple Tense to talk about the past.
• Regular Verbs (-ed) Irregular Verbs (V2) be:was/were
• Helping Verb: Did
• Time Phrases: Yesterday, Last week/weekend, 2 years ago, in the
past, in 1992 etc…
REGULAR VERBS
Sentence Formation with Regular
Verbs(Question/Positive/Negative)
Positive Sentence

They play-ed football last night.

Subject(Özne) Verb(Fiil) + -ed object(nesne) time phrase
(zaman ifadesi)
 Negative Sentence

They didn’t play football last night

Negative helping
Subject(Özne) Verb(fiil) object(nesne) time phrase
(zaman ifadesi)
verb(olumsuz
yardımcı fiil)
 Question

Did they play football last night?

Helping time phrase
Subject Verb object
verb (zaman ifadesi)
 Let’s analyze this sentence.

They played football last night.

• Who played football last night? They (subject)

• What did they do last night? played(verb) football (object)

• When did they play football? last night. (time phrase)

IRREGULAR VERBS
Sentence Formation with Irregular
Verbs(Question/Positive/Negative)
 Positive Sentence

We went to the cinema last night.

Subject Verb time phrase
object(nesne)
(go-went) (zaman ifadesi)
Negative Sentence
Negative
Subject helping time phrase
Verb object
verb

We didn’t go to the cinema last night.

 Question

Helping time phrase

verb Subject Verb object(nesne) (zaman ifadesi)

Did we go to the cinema last night?

 Let’s analyze this sentence.

We went to the cinema last night.

• Who went to the cinema last night? We (subject)

• What did we do last night? went(verb) to the cinema (object)

• When did we go to the cinema? last night. (time phrase)

Time Phrases
• Yesterday
• Last week/weekend/month/year/night
• Yesterday morning/afternoon/night
• 2 days/years/weeks/months/hours ago
• in the past.
• in 1996/2000 etc..
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give
drive
wear
send
speak
understand
drink
know
make
read