past simple

It is one of the most important verbal tenses in the English language and, unlike Spanish, where verbs in the past have very different conjugations, in English there are verbs that retain their form in both the present and the past, and the most irregular ones reach to have only up to three shapes.

​past simple

​when we use that?

The past simple is used for sentences in which the idea, act, or state has already been completed. It could have ended five minutes ago or five centuries ago, the ending time does not matter, the only important thing is that it is talking about something that no longer happens or exists in the present.
example:

• A year ago

• In 1970

• When you were a child 

They are called irregular because they modify their stem completely, whether in its simple past or participle form or both. Unlike regular verbs, you do not have to include D or ED, but rather their writing changes noticeably

example: be: is/are - was/were
break/broke

​irregular

D is for verbs whose last letter is e. For example: Close - Closed, believe - believed.

The ED is for verbs in any other ending. For example: Jump - Jumped, start - started

When there is a Y at the end, after a vocal, you just have to add ED. For example: Play - Played

When there is no vowel before y, it is changed to IED. For example: Study - Studied, Try - Tried

In other cases, the last consonant of the word must be repeated to add the formula ED. For example: Stop - Stopped

​regular - ed - d

how is formed the past simple?

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To construct sentences in the simple past in negative form, you have to use the auxiliary DO/DOES, change which is the only one that is conjugated in the past.

I didn’t go to your house on my bicycle - N
I went to your house on my bicycle - A

​NEGATIVE

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again you have to use the auxiliary DO/DOES. As in the negative form, only the auxiliary is conjugated in the past, while the main verb remains in its infinitive form.

You remembered the correct answer just before the end of test time- A
Did you remember the correct answer just before the end of test time? - I

​​interrogative

Yesterday i woke up early, got out of bead, brushed my teeth and went to had my breackfast with my family; we ate eggs, toast, and drank coffe, after that i walked to the bus stop, waited for the bus and when i arrived, i hopped on and rode it all the way to school, on the school i studied english, math and science, after that we had lunch and after lunch we played soccer and had a lot of fun, in the evening i went back to home, did my homework and watched a movie with my family.