PAST SIMPLE TENSE

PAST SIMPLE TENSE

by Yến Phương

CONTENT

Use

Time Expression

Form

Irregular Verbs​

​-ED pronunciation rules

USE

• 1/ A finished action in the past:

• Ex:

• My children came home late last night,

• I went to Hue last week, ....

USE

• 2/ Express actions that happened consecutively in the past:

• EX:

• Laura came home, took a nap, then had lunch.

• David fell down the stair yesterday and hurt his leg.

USE

• 3/ Describes an action that interrupted an action in progress in the past:

• EX:

• Huong was riding his bike when it rained ;

• When Nam was cooking breakfast, the lights suddenly went out.

TIME EXPRESSION

• Last night, last week,

• In 2004, in Summer, ....

• Yesterday, ago....

• At, on, in… (at 6 o’clock, on Monday, in June,…)

• When + mệnh đề chia thì quá khứ đơn: khi (when I was a kid,…)

FORM

1/ Positive:

​

​S + was / were + O

​V_ed

​

​Ex: She left school at 5 o'clock,

We visited Australia last summer,

I was at home last night.

FORM

2/ Negative:

​

​S + was / were (NOT) + O

​didn't + V

​

​Ex: She didn't leave school at 5 o'clock,

We didn't visit Australia last summer,

I wasn't at home last night.

FORM

2/ Short question:

​

​Was / were + S + O ?

​DID + S + V (nguyên mẫu) ?

​

​Ex: Did you bring her the package?

Did he study English 5 years ago?

Were you at school last Sunday?

FORM

2/ WH- question:

​

WH-word + ​was / were + S + O ?

​WH-word + did + S + V (nguyên mẫu) ?

​

​Ex: What did you do last Sunday?

Why did she break up with him?

Where were you last summer vacation?

IRREGULAR VERBS

• Get - got

• Run - ran

• Cut - cut

• Speak - spoke

• Bite - bit

• ​Sing - sang

• ​Teach - taught

• ​Learn - learnt / learned

• ​Drink - drank

• ​....

-ED PRONUNCIATION RULES

• How do we pronounce the -ed? The answer is, in 3 ways:

  • /ɪd/

  • /t/

  • /d/

PRONOUNCE /ID/

• ​If the base verb ends in one of these sounds: /t/, /d/

• ​Ex:

• want - wanted /wɒntid/

• ​end - ended /endid/

PRONOUNCE /t/

• ​If the base verb ends in one of these sounds: /p/, /f/, /s/, /ʃ/, /ʧ/, /k/

• ​Ex:

• ​hope - hoped /həʊpt/

• ​laugh - laughed /lɑːft/

• ​fax - faxed /fækst/

• ​wash - washed /wɒʃt/

• ​watch - watched /wɒtʃt/

• ​like - liked /laɪkt/

PRONOUNCE /d/

• If the base verb ends in one of all other sounds

• ​Ex:

• ​play - played /pleɪd/

• ​allow - allowed /əˈlaʊd/

• ​beg - begged /beɡd/

NOTE

• ​The following -ed words used as adjectives are pronounced with /ɪd/:

  • aged dogged

  • ragged blessed

  • learned wicked

  • crooked naked

  • wretched