Simple Past Tense

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Simple Past Tense

suharto and B. J. HABIBIE

Suharto and B. J. Habibie were the second President and the Vice President of Indonesia. Suharto was born in Kemusuk while B. J. Habibie was born in Parepare.

THE USE OF PAST SIMPLE nominal (BE)

We use the past simple tense of be to talk about people and situations in the past.

We often use dates and times with was and were:

• Deborah Kerr and Ingrid Bergman were film stars in the 1950s.

• Was he in the beginners’ class last year?

• It wasn’t very cold in December.

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Compare was/were with is/are:

The weather was hot yesterday but it is cooler today.

1920s films were in black and white but now most films are in colour.

the form of PAST SIMPLE nominal (BE)

We make the past tense of the verb be with was and were:

​There are no short forms of was and were in positive sentences.

the form of PAST SIMPLE nominal (BE)

​We use the short forms wasn’t and weren’t when we are speaking to someone and in informal writing.

the form of PAST SIMPLE nominal (BE)

We put was/were in the front of the sentence in interrogative form

b. j. habibie

Habibie went to Delft, the Netherlands, to study aviation and aerospace at the Technische Hogeschool Delft.

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the use of past simple verbal

We use the past simple to talk about:

• a single finished action in the past: I went to the dentist yesterday. I passed my exam last week.

• a repeated action in the past: I called your mobile five times yesterday.

We often use time expressions (e.g. yesterday, in 2002, last year) to say when something happened:

We can also use when + past simple:

My father played football when he was young.

When she left college, Isabel had no money.

the form of PAST SIMPLE verbal (v2)

We add -ed to most verbs to make the past simple:​

watch ➞ watched, retire ➞ retired

Study these spellings:

die ➞ died, live ➞ lived, like ➞ liked

stop ➞ stopped, plan ➞ planned, travel ➞ travelled

carry ➞ carried, study ➞ studied

Some verbs are irregular.

They do not form the past simple with -ed:

buy ➞ bought, do ➞ did, have (got) ➞ had (got), go ➞ went, hit ➞ hit, leave ➞ left, make ➞ made, put ➞ put, say ➞ said, take ➞ took, see ➞ saw, tell ➞ told, win ➞ won

the form of PAST SIMPLE verbal (v2)

We use the past simple:

• when one thing happens after another in the past:

e.g We arrived at the airport at eleven o’clock and took a taxi to the hotel. Then we went to the café and had a drink, but we didn’t eat anything.

• to talk about a situation that finished in the past:

e.g I lived with my grandparents last summer. Did men have long hair in the 1960s? MP3 players didn’t exist when I was a child.

the form of PAST SIMPLE verbal (v2)

We use did for a negative and interrogative forms of past simple.

​The right form of WH Question :

✗ What you did on Saturday?

✓ What did you do on Saturday?

words we use with the past simple

• We use then to say that one action happened after another one:

‘I finished school in 2006. Then I went to university.’

‘And what did you do then?’ (after university)

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• We use from … to to say when a past situation started and finished:

James Dean lived from 1931 to 1955.

I waited for you from eight o’clock to half past nine!

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• We use for + ten minutes, two hours, a week, etc. to say how long a past situation lasted: Daniela stayed with her cousins for two weeks last summer.

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10 multiple choices

Multiple Choice

Mozart ___________ more than 600 pieces of music.

• writes

• was wrote

• wrote

• writed

Multiple Choice

We _______ Eren in town a few days ago.

• did see

• saw

• did saw

• was saw

Multiple Choice

It was cold, so I _____________ the window.

• shut

• was shut

• am shut

• shutted

Multiple Choice

I ___________ to the cinema three times last week.

• was go

• went

• did go

• goed

Multiple Choice

What __________ you _________ last weekend?

• were / do

• did / did

• did / do

• do / did

Multiple Choice

The police ___________ me on my way home last night.

• was stop

• stopped

• stops

• stopping

Multiple Choice

The film wasn't very good. I _____________ it very much. enjoyed wasn't enjoy didn't enjoyed didn't enjoy

• enjoyed

• wasn't enjoy

• didn't enjoyed

• didn't enjoy

Multiple Choice

The bed was very uncomfortable. I ____________ sleep very well.

• didn't

• did

• wasn't

• not

Multiple Choice

The window was open and a bird ___________ into the room.

• fly

• flew

• was flew

• did fly

Multiple Choice

I __________ a lot of money yesterday. I __________ an expensive dress.

• spend / buy

• spent / buy

• spent / bought

• was spent / bought

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