PAST SIMPLE TENSE

PAST SIMPLE TENSE

By Vidya Vimuti

When do we use Past Simple?

• Finished events and situations in the past

• Not limited in duration

• Something that happened several times in the past

• ​Something that was true for some time in the past

• ​Clue (time signal) : last year, just now, yesterday, last ...., two weeks ago,

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• They didn't go to Spain this year.

• We didn't get home until very late last night.

• SUBJECT + DID + NOT +VERB 1​ + OBJECT

NEGATIVE

• I met my wife in 1983.

• They got home very late last night.

• SUBJECT + VERB 2 + OBJECT​

POSITIVE

FORMULA

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But questions with who often don't use did:

• Who discovered penicillin?

• Who wrote Don Quixote?

• Did you live abroad?

• When did you meet your wife?

• QUESTION WORDS + DID + SUBJECT + VERB 1 + OBJECT​ ?

• ​DID + SUBJECT + VERB 1 + OBJECT​ ?

QUESTION

FORMULA

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