quizizz for grade 8

Simple Past Tense

We use the simple past tense to talk about completed actions

Regular and irregular verbs

• Regular verbs: They have an -ed ending. Example: return, stay, move, etc

• Irregular verbs: They have many different forms. Example: go, come,do, be, etc

Most common regular verbs

Regular verbs:

arrive: arrived

learn: learned

move: moved

travel: traveled

want: wanted

ask: asked

play:played

Most common irregular verbs

eat: ate

sleep: slept

see: saw

tell: told

speak: spoke

take: took

get: got

let: let

do: did

be: was/were

How to do it?

• Statement: S+ Verb past simple+ C

• Negative stament: S+ didn't(did not)+ verb in the base form+ C

• Question with be: Was/were+ S+ verb in the base form+ C

• Question: Did+ S+ verb in the base form+ C

Words that are going to help us

• yesterday

• ...ago

• last week/ year,etc

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Examples

• She slept very late yesterday

• She didn't sleep very late last week

• Did she sleep very late yesterday?

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