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simple past tense

simple past tense

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English

7th Grade

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Hard

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Nina Setiana

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​simple past tense
The simple past tense is a verb form used to refer to an action or series of actions that were completed in the past. The simple past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding “-ed” to the infinitive form of the verb. Irregular verbs don’t follow a specific pattern: some take the same form as the infinitive (e.g., “put”), while others change completely (e.g., “go” becomes “went”).
Examples

  • John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.

  • My father died last year.

  • He lived in Fiji in 1976.

  • We crossed the Channel yesterday.

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You always use the simple past when you say when something happened, so it is associated with certain past time expressions.
frequency:
often, sometimes, always
I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
I often brought my lunch to school.

a definite point in time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
We saw a good film last week.
an indefinite point in time: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago
People
lived in caves a long time ago.

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in simple past tense, there are two formula namely verbal sentence and nominal sentence.
in verbal sentence the structure using verb 2, however for nominal sentence the structure not use verb but using to be such as was/were.
example
My mom and I went to the zoo yesterday
I played football last week

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Multiple Choice

She … her dog everyday

1

To feed

2

fed

3

feeds

4

feeding

5

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Multiple Choice

Mozart ___________ more than 600 pieces of music.

o

1

writes

2

wrote

3

writed

4

was wrote

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Multiple Choice

We _______ David in town a few days ago.

1

did see

2

was saw

3

did saw

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saw

​simple past tense
The simple past tense is a verb form used to refer to an action or series of actions that were completed in the past. The simple past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding “-ed” to the infinitive form of the verb. Irregular verbs don’t follow a specific pattern: some take the same form as the infinitive (e.g., “put”), while others change completely (e.g., “go” becomes “went”).
Examples

  • John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.

  • My father died last year.

  • He lived in Fiji in 1976.

  • We crossed the Channel yesterday.

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