The simple past

The simple past

 In the English language we can find two types of verbs Regular Irregular Look at the list of past tense verbs Which verbs are regular and which verbs are irregular?

Worked Lived Enjoyed Taught Loved Wrote Became Cried Did Studied

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irregular irregular

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 What is a REGULAR verb? End with ed

Simple form Watch Wash Love past form watched washed loved

 There are some exceptions Regular verbs ending with Y. Change the Y into a i and add the ED Cry cried Toms brother cried all night long Regular verbs ending with E just add D Love loved She loved this movie when she was with her boyfriend Exceptions: Enjoy enjoyed I enjoyed your company last week

 What is an irregular verb? Those verbs that dont end with ED In some cases they can change in just one letter Like in: Simple form Simple past Become became Drive drove Give gave Forget forgot

Other irregular verbs change their form completely, as in:

Simple form simple past Buy bought Teach taught Sell sold Take took Jessicabought (buy) a nice house in the ___________ beach took He ___________(take) his car and drove _________(drive) to his girlfriends house

 There are some verbs that dont change at all: Simple form simple past Cut cut Set set Put put Hit hit Hurt hurt
She hit his brother in the face Yesterday I cut my hair. How I miss it!

Lets see some exercises

Tina_____ (buy) a new car She ____ (lose) her keys He ____ (win) the football cup of his school Jhonny____ (be) an amazing person We_____ (love) to eat pop corn at the cinema We ____ (go) to the park last Sunday They_____ (watch) a TV show

Negative form
To form negative sentences with the regular and irregular verbs you have to use DID NOT or DIDNT and the verb stays in the infinitive form. Example: I played voleyball yesterday I didnt play voleyball yesterday.

Exercise: Change these positive sentences into negatives o I loved her ___________________________________________________ o You took my car ______________________________________________

o We went to the post office _______________________________________

o She had a pen __________________________________________________ o I watched TV last night __________________________________________ o I closed my bank account_______________________________________ o I had a shower _________________________________________________ o He read Harry Potter three times last year___________________________

How can we make questions with short answers in simple past?

In order to create questions follow this formula
DID+ pronoun or subject+ verb (infinitive)+complement? Did + you + Answer Yes, I did / No, I didnt sell + your car ?

Lets practice Did + she + lose + her keys? (Answer in aff. form)) Did + we + drive+ to your house last night? (Answer in neg. form)

 Wh- questions In order to use Wh-questions you can folllow this formula Wh Q + did + pronoun + verb inf.+ complement + ? Where + did + you + sleep + last night? Answer: pronoun + verb (past) + complement I slept in my uncles house

Exercises
Order the following sentences. She/ leave/ where/the car/ did? she left the car inside my garden why/ move/ she/did/ here? because she fought with her mom What did you do last night? a party/ I/ went /to Did you watch TV last night? did/ I/ yes.

What did she buy? bought/ she/ some new clothes

you/ sleep/ well/ did? Yes, I did, thank you