Past Simple Tense

Past Simple Tense

Form of regular verbs

• -ed: stopped, travelled, studied;arrived

• Did..... do sth?/ Where did ..........do sth?

• did not - didn't do sth

Irregular verbs - past tense

• the 2nd form from the table of irregular verbs:

• wrote; read,drew, swam, hit, put, cut, built, saw, met, made,

Short answers

• Yes, I did.

• No, I didn't.

Use of past simple

• Actions that happened at a specific time in the past - e.g. I saw him yesterday.

• Actions that happened one after the other in the past - e.g.He got his bag, put on his coat and left.

Adverbs of time and time expressions

• yesterday; last week/month/year; a week ago

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Spelling rules

• arrive-arrived

• study - studied

• play - played

• stop - stopped

• book- booked