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SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Regular and Irregular Verbs

VERB CLASSIFICATION:

How can be verbs classified according to the way they form their past tense? Verb

Regular

Irregular

LOOK AT THESE VERBS! ARE THEY REGULAR OR IRREGULAR?


DANCED PLAYED WENT READ WROTE CUT CAME BOUGHT LIKED

WHY IS DANCE A REGULAR VERB? WHY IS SING AN IRREGULAR VERB?

WHY IS WATCH A REGULAR VERB? WHY IS EAT AN IRREGULAR VERB?

REGULAR VERBS:

REGULAR VERBS ADD ED.

TAKE A CAREFUL LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING CHART:

MORE EXAMPLES OF REGULAR VERBS:

IRREGULAR VERBS:

IRREGULAR VERBS DO NOT ADD ED-

TAKE A LOOK AT THE CHART BELOW.


INFINITIVE FORM SIMPLE PAST TENSE

COST

COST

WRITE GO
DO READ

WROTE WENT
DID READ

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF IRREGULAR VERBS:

LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBS:

AFFIRMATIVE SENTENCES:

I cooked yesterday.

He bought a new car last year.

INTERROGATIVE AND NEGATIVE SENTENCES:

QUESTION AND SHORT ANSWERS:

SUMMARY:

EXERCISE N1: MATCH

EXERCISE N 2: WRITE THE CORRECT PAST FORM:


Infinitive
bring

Past Simple
bought

Infinitive
give

Past Simple
went
shut

come do drank swim take

drove
find flew forget

tell
taught thought understand

get (up)

write

SUMMING UP:

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