verbs

Simple past
tense

The simple past

tense is used to
express an
action that
happened at a
particular time
in the past.

Examples
1)

2)

Ganesh walked to the bus stop

yesterday.
Litesh and his brother went to the cinema
last week.
The verb walked and went tell us
about past actions. They are both in the
simple past tense.

The past tense of verbs can be

formed by :
a)

b)

Adding d, ed or ied to verbs.

These are called regular verbs.
E.g. live- lived
bake-baked
add-added
talk-talked
cry-cried
study-studied

c) Changing the spelling of verbs. These are

called irregular verbs.
E.g.
blow-blew
run-ran
do-did
sleep-slept
give-gave

d) Some past tense verbs do not change

form at all.
E.g. hit-hit
cut-cut
put-put
read-read

Zags teacher tells him to make

a timetable.

Zag sits under a tree and thinks

for a long time.

Zag runs home and makes his

own timetable. He is very proud.

Zags mother sees her new

table. She is very angry.

Find the simple past tense for

the given verbs.

see
has

blow
thin
k
cut

tell

is

put