Simpe Past Tense
Simple Past
Tense (Affirmative Form)
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Subject
I
She
He
It
They
We
You
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Verb 2 / + -ed
Walked
Drank
Talked
Took
Brought
pushed
Lied
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Object
To
school yesterday
Juice
mango last night
To
his mother last week
A
minutes
Fruit
in the market last Monday
The
box together
To
me
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Verb
+ -ed = the simple past tense
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Simple Past
Tense (Negative Form)
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Subject
I
She
He
It
They
We
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Did
Did
Did
Did
Did
Did
Did
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Not
Not
Not
Not
Not
Not
Not
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Object
Walk
to school yesterday
Drink
juice mango last night
Talk
to his mother last week
Take
a minutes
Buy
fruit in the market last Monday
Push
the box together
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Notice : the simple form of the main verb is
used with did not.
I
didn’t walk to school yesterday
Tom
didn’t eat lunch yesterday
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Simple
Past Tense (Interrogative Form)
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Did
Did
did
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Subject
Mary
you
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Verb
Walk
come
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Object
To
school
To
class
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Short answer
Yes,
she did
No,
she didn’t
Yes,
I did
No,
I didn’t
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Past
time words : yesterday, last and ago
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Yesterday
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Last
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Ago
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Yesterday
Yesterday
morning
Yesterday
afternoon
Yesterday
evening
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Last night
Last
week
Last
month
Last
year
Last
spring
Last
summer
Last
fall
Last
winter
Last
Monday
Last
Tuesday
etc
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Five
minutes ago
Two
hours ago
Three
days ago
A
(one) week ago
Six
months ago
A
(one) year ago
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Notice
:
yesterday
is used with morning, afternoon and evening
Last
is used with night, with long periods of time (week, month, year) with
seasons (spring, summer, etc) and with days of the week
Ago
means “in the past”. It follows specific lengths of time (e.g. two minutes +
ago, five years + ago)
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Exercise
: verb review.
Direction
: complete the sentences. Use the word in parentheses. Use the simple present,
the present progressive or the simple past. Pay attention on spelling.
1. I
(get) got up at eight o’clock yesterday morning.
2. Mary
(talk) _______ to john on the phone last night.
3. Mary
(talk) _______ to john on the phone right now.
4. Mary
(talk) _______ to john on the phone every day.
5. Jim
and I (eat) _______ lunch at the cafeteria two hours ago.
6. We
(eat) _______ lunch at the cafeteria every day.
7. I
(go) _______ to bed early last night.
8. My
roommate (study) _______ Spanish last year.
9. Sue
(write) _______ an email to her parents yesterday.
10. Sue
(write) _______ an email to her parents every day.
11. Sue
is in her room right now. She (sit) _______ at her desk.
12. Yesterday
I (see) _______ fumiko at the library.
13. Maria
(do) _______ her homework last night.
14. I
(have) _______ a dream last night. I (dream) _______ about my friends. I (sleep)
_______ for eight hours.
15. A
strange thing (happen) _______ to me yesterday. I couldn’t remember my own telephone
number.
16. My wife (come) _______ home around five every day.
17. Yesterday
she (come) _______ home at 5.15.
18. Our
teacher (stand) _______ in the middle of the room right now.
19. Our
teacher (stand) _______ in the front of the room yesterday.
20. Tom
(put) _______ the butter in the refrigerator yesterday.
21. He
(put) _______ the milk in the refrigerator every day.
22. Pablo
usually (sit) _______ in the back of the room, but yesterday he (sit) _______
in the front row. Today he (be) _______ absent. He (be) _______ absent two days
ago too.