Simple past

tense
For:
Mirror Cordero
Mario Masis
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 What Do You Use the Simple Past
Tense For?
The simple past tense can be used to:

 Refer to an action or event that happened in the past

 Speak about something that was true for some time in the past

 Explain something that happened more than once in the past

 Affirmative
form
Subject + Verb in the past form (base form of the verb + ed/d for regular
verbs or past tense form of the irregular verbs)

Example:

• You spoke really well.

• I played basketball in college.

 Negative form
Subject + did not or didn’t + Verb in the base form

Example:
• You did not speak really well.
• I didn´t have my breakfast
 interrogative form
Did + Subject + Verb in the base form

Example:
• Did you speak really well?
• Did I play basketball in college?
 Regular verbs
In order to present the main verb in the sentence, you just have to add
“-ed” to the end of the regular verb and “-d” to the end of a regular
verb which ends with an “e”
Example:
Reach – reached
kick – kicked
Like – liked
introduce – introduced,
 Irregular verbs
Irregular verbs are seen to follow different spelling patterns and there is no
rule as such to explain why they are so.
Example:
• Buy – bought
• think – thought
• draw – drew
• drink – drank
• see – saw
 Irregular verbs
Irregular Verbs with the Same Spelling

Base Verb Simple Past Form Base Verb Simple Past Form

Cut Cut Let Let

Put Put Set Set

Shut Shut Hit Hit

Hurt Hurt Split Split

Burst Burst Spread Spread

Shed Shed Cast Cast

Bet Bet Thrust Thrust

 Irregular verbs
Irregular Verbs with Completely Different Spellings

Base Verb Simple Past Form Base Verb Simple Past Form
Blow Blew Fly Flew

Arise Arose Give Gave

See Saw Rise Rose

Run Ran Take Took

Sink Sank Throw Threw

Drink Drank Write Wrote

Sing Sang Show Showed

Break Broke Know Knew

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