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    Regular verbs form the past simple by adding "-ed" to the base verb, while irregular verbs have unique past forms that must be memorized. The past simple tense is used to talk about finished actions in the past, and can be used with time expressions like "last week" or "yesterday" as well as specific dates. It has positive, negative, and interrogative forms using auxiliary verbs like "did" and forms of "to be".

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    Regular verbs form the past simple by adding "-ed" to the base verb, while irregular verbs have unique past forms that must be memorized. The past simple tense is used to talk about finished actions in the past, and can be used with time expressions like "last week" or "yesterday" as well as specific dates. It has positive, negative, and interrogative forms using auxiliary verbs like "did" and forms of "to be".

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    Regular verbs form the past simple by adding "-ed" to the base verb, while irregular verbs have unique past forms that must be memorized. The past simple tense is used to talk about finished actions in the past, and can be used with time expressions like "last week" or "yesterday" as well as specific dates. It has positive, negative, and interrogative forms using auxiliary verbs like "did" and forms of "to be".

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    REGULAR verbs Past simple expresses past finished actions.

    Verb +ED Adverbs :


    Last week / Last year / Last April ède is dead
    Yesterday
    played / visited / watched
    In 1980
    IRREGULAR verbs 3 months ago

    learn 2nd verb by heart

    go - went - gone - aller 3 pronunciations for -ed


    POSITIVE FORM USE /id/ decided - visited

    /t/ watched - liked

    /d/ lived - played

    NEGATIVE FORM
    PAST PRONUNCIATION
    SUBJECT + DIDN’T + VERB
    SIMPLE
    Jack didn’t play....

    I didn’t go...
    INTERROGATIVE FORM BE

    I was
    He was a writer.
    you were
    WH- + Auxiliary + Subject + Verb + Complements + ? he/she/it was
    He wasn’t a teacher.
    we were
    Where did you go yesterday? you were
    Did she play tennis last weekend? Was he a playwright?
    they were

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