Touchstone 2nd Edition Language summary Level 1

Unit 10 Lesson A: A night at home

Vocabulary
Activities
cook dinner
go grocery shopping
invite (over)
practice (a musical instrument)
run errands
stay home
try to (do something)
work late

(v)
(v)
(v)
(v)
(v)
(v)
(v)
(v)

Free time
flute
party
computer / video game

(n)
(n)
(n)

Other words
just
then
so
while

(adv)
(adv)
(conj)
(conj)

Past tense endings: regular verbs

chatted (chat)
invited (invite)
played (play)
studied (study)
watched (watch)

(v)
(v)
(v)
(v)
(v)

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Touchstone 2nd Edition Language summary Level 1

Grammar
Simple past statements regular verbs
You can use the simple past to talk about the time before now the past.
Affirmative statements
Use subject + verb + -ed:
I played a video game.
Negative statements
Use subject + didn't (= did not) + verb:
I didn't play chess.
The form of simple past is the same for all subjects (I, you, he, she, we, and they).
Simple past endings
Regular simple past verbs end in -ed.

For most verbs add -ed:

He watched a movie.

For verbs ending in -e, add d:

My friends invited me to a party.

For verbs ending in a consonant + -y, change the y to an i and add -ed:
You studied math.

For verbs ending in a vowel and a consonant, double the consonant and add -ed:
They chatted online.

Remember, a consonant is any letter that is not a vowel (a, e, i, o, u).

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