PAST SIMPLE

Past simple

Regular and Irregular verbs

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Let me tell you about the PAST SIMPLE...

We use this tense to talk about a completed action in a past time.

Elizabeth painted a beautiful portrait yesterday

Diana always watched cartoons on Saturday mornings

We use it to talk about past routines

Do you remember the uses of present simple?

VERB TO BE: THE EASIEST AND MOST IMPORTANT ONE!

Verb to be works a little bit differently than the other verbs...

AM NOT ISN'TAREN'T

AM IS ARE

WASN'T WEREN'T

WASWERE

For questions we will start with the verb, as we always doWere you... was she....?

This is my brother now!

now, let's continue!

Two types of VERBS

REGULAR VERBS

IRREGULAR VERBS

REGULAR VERBS:

For regular verbs, we use the structure:

VERB + ED

Lorelai played the violin at the festivalLuke worked as a bartender last summer

really?

It lools very easy...

REGULAR VERBS: Spelling

Verbs ending in -e Verb+-d Dean closed the windows two minutes ago. Verbs ending in consonant + y y becomes i. =. Verb+ied Rory copied the answers on his notebook. Consonant+vowel+ consonant the verb doubles the consonant + ed Patty's car stopped at the traffic lights.

REGULAR VERBS: PRACTICE

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Did you know that...fewer than a 3% of verbs in English are irregular?

IRREGULAR VERBS

There is a list of verbs you should learn BY HEART But don't worry! There are some tricks...

Study them by using them in a daily basis

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IRREGULAR VERBS

1st group

IRREGULAR VERBS

2nd and 3rd group

QUESTIONS

NEGATIVE

What about NEGATIVE and INTERROGATIVEforms?

For both REGULAR and IRREGULAR verbs, we use

For both REGULAR and IRREGULAR verbs, we use

DIDN'T (did + not)

DID + SUBJECT + VB ?

Did Tristin buy his literature book?

Jess didn't study for today's test.