SIMPLE PAST TENSE

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Is a verb tense that is used to talk about things that happened before now.

Subject + Past Tense

Example 1: Wolfgang entered a hula hoop contest. Example

2: He won the silver medal.

Verb to be + an adjective/noun/prepositional phrases

Did not/Didnʼt + root form of verb

Example 1: Wolfgang did not brag too much about his hoop skills. Example 2:
Wolfgangʼs girlfriend didn’t see the contest.

Subject (S/P) + Was not/Wasnʼt or Were not/Werenʼt

Example 1: The third-place winner was not as happy as Wolfgang.

Example 2: The contestants were not ready to leave either.

D id + subject + root form of verb + ?

Example 1: Did Wolfgang win the gold medal or the silver medal?

W as/Were + subject + ?

Example 1: Was Wolfgang in a good mood after the contest?

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(GRAMMAR)

Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to answer answered
to play played
washed cooked
to wash to cook
painted to start started
to paint

to open opened to clean cleaned

happened to look looked

to happen

to call called to talk talked

to dream dreamed to fill filled

to jump jumped to explain explained

to mix mixed to expect expected

ended cured
to end to cure
watched to warn warned
to watch

to remember remembered to book booked

to add added to allow allowed

accepted to ask asked

to accept

to throw throwed to shower showered

to collect collected to borrow borrowed

to clean cleaned to brush b

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to stop stopped to carry

to flip to plan

to drop to rob

to travel to grab

to drag to clap

to chat to nod

to chop to jog

to spot to commit

to occur to prefer

to submit to transfer

to admit to sob

to nag to label

to level to drown

to beg to star

to mop to rub

to trap to dream

to brag
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Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to live lived to escape

to phone to endure

to arrive to like

to invite to explore

to hope to expose

to smoke to examine

to decide to encourage

to use to eliminate

to vote to close

to bake to cure

to save to love

to dance to smile

to engage to wave

to enable to behave

to educate to share

to endure to stare

to evaluate to chase
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Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to carry carried to marry

to cry to worry

to try to apply

to study to bury

to copy to dry

to fry to hurry

to reply to satisfy

to spy to tidy

to supply to deny

to empty to multiply

to accompany to bully

to verify to rely

to identify to notify

to pity to qualify

to testify to purify

to dignify to envy

to certify to classify
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Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to pay played to betray

to destroy to stay

to enjoy to pray

to delay to convey

to portray to annoy

to replay to obey

to employ to slay

Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to fly flew to draw

to know to grow

to throw to blow
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Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to drive drove to ring

to run to begin

to fight to stick

to swing to give

to come to ride

to rise to sing

to sink to sit

to swim to wake

to write to drink

to hang to forgive

to forget to drive

to fall to get

to sting
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Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

is are
was

to go to break

to do to eat

to freeze to shake

to steal to swear

to wear to take

to tear to build

to deal to feel

to say to send

to pay to sell

to hear to win

to hold to lose

to make to leave

to lend to mean

to spend to tell

to break to see

to have to find
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Simple Past Tense: Irregular Verb

(Short the spelling)

Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to feed fed to lead

to shoot to choose

to hide to bite

Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to cut cut to bet

to read to set

to put to cost
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Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to buy bought to seek

to bring to buy

to think

Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to catch caught to teach

Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

to sweep swept to sleep

to keep to creep

to weep