SIMPLE PAST TENSE

SIMPLE PAST TENSE​

By Marita Caballero​

When do we use it? ​

The simple past tense shows that you are talking about something (actions, states, habits) that has already happened, and it emphasizes that the action is finished.

For example:​

​She was in the supermarket.

Leonardo painted La Mona Lisa.​

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​last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago.​

Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.

She finished her work last week.

A definite point in time​

frequency: often, sometimes, always.

I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.​

​Frequency

Forming The Simple Past

The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important.​

​The other day, ages ago, a long time ago.

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People lived in caves a long time ago.

She played the piano when she was a child.

​An indefinite point in time

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Poll

We use the Simple Past to....

• speak about some habits

• Finished actions

• unfinished actions

• states, habits in the past.

Poll

Can we apply some adverbs of frequency?

• TRUE

• FALSE

​RULES FOR REGULAR VERBS

1. To form the past tense of a verb, add -ed to the end of the root form of the verb.

• For example, jump becomes jumped and talk becomes talked.

2. If the verb ends in -e, just add a -d to the end of the root form.

• For example, examine becomes examined and dance becomes danced.

3. If the verb ends in -y, we turn the -y into an -i and add -ed.

• For example, cry becomes cried and fry becomes fried. * But if there is a vowel, we keep the y

Subject | Subject

​Let's practice

Multiple Choice

Past of: Play

• plaied

• played

• plaed

• playing

Multiple Choice

Past of: Study

• STUDIED

• STUDYIED

• STUDYED

• STUDYING

If a one-syllable verb ends in consonant-vowel-consonant, we double the final consonant. However, if the verb ends in -w, -x, or -y, we don’t double the consonant.

• For example, stun becomes stunned and drum becomes drummed.

• For example, box becomes boxed, and stay - stayed

Subject | Subject

Multiple Choice

If the verb ends in -w, -x, or -y, we don’t double the consonant.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

CHOOSE THE CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB MIX IN PAST

• MIXXED

• MIX

• MIXED

• MIXING

LETS REVIEW ​

Multiple Choice

I _______ out late last night.

• stay

• staied

• stayed

Multiple Choice

My best friend____ her relatives last weekend.

• visit

• visited

• visitted

Multiple Choice

I sometimes _____ to work.

• walked

• walkeded

• walk