Past simple of Regular verbs

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PAST TIME OF

REGULAR VERBS​

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With regular verbs, we usually add -ed

(work-worked, start-started, walk-walked)

If the verb ends in e , we only add -d

(live-lived, smile-smiled, change-changed)

If a short verb ends in one vowel + consonant, we double the last consonant and add -ed

(plan-planned, shop-shopped, skip-skipped)

If the verb ends in a consonant -y, we change the y to -i- and add -ed.

(try-tried. spy-spied, study-studied)

​If the verb ends in a vowel + y, do not change the -y-.

Just add -ed

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​(play-played, obey-obyed, employ-employed)

THERE ARE SOME EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE:

PAY - PAID
LAY - LAID
BUY - BOUGHT

If the verb has two syllables and the accent goes to the second syllable, we double the last consonant.

prefer - preferred
commit - committed
admit - admitted
permit - permitted

Multiple Choice

How can we usually form a regular verb in the past?

• We add -s/es at the end of the verb.

• We add -ed at the end of the verb.

• We add -ed at the beginning of the verb.

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Multiple Select

Tick or mark the correct verbs .....

• worried

• chewd

• robbed

• replyed

• admired

Multiple Choice

We add _____TO THE VERB to form a verb in the simple past.

• D- ED- ED

• IED- YED-D

• D-ED-YED

• D- ED- IED

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Tick or mark the incorrect verbs ......

• exploret

• closet

• studied

• preferred

• bakeed

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Multiple Select

Tick or mark the correct verbs .......

• pulledd

• warned

• greetted

• remembered

• permitted

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Multiple Choice

If a verb finishes in CONSONANT-VOWEL-CONSONANT, what do you do?

• Double the consonant

• Nothing, just add ED

• Double the consonant and add ED

• It's an irregular

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Multiple Choice

Yesterday Tony _______ late at school.

• started

• arrived

• needed

• sleeped

• called

Multiple Choice

Write the past simple of the verb:

We ____ to make sentences using verbs in past tense. 

• hunted

• jumped

• marked

• learned

• clicked

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence.

Last week I _______ to an important meeting.

• were

• dressed

• attended

• climbed

• brushed

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Multiple Choice

Last Sunday the film __________ at twenty-five to seven in the evening.

• endded

• answered

• finishhed

• started

• baked

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Multiple Choice

Which of these verbs are not regular?

• walk, travel.

• bite, sit.

• play, cry.

• flip, plan.

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Multiple Choice

Yesterday we ___ our primary teacher. ___ pleased to see us.

• was / She were

• were / They were

• visited / She was

• visited / They were

• visiting/They were