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USE
We use past simple to talk about things that happened in
the past.

A minute ago
Yesterday
A week ago
Last week
Last year
 STRUCTURE

Subject + verb past form + complement

I played the guitar last night
Subject + auxiliar verb (did) + not + base form verb + complement
I did not (didn’t) play the guitar last
night
Auxiliar verb (Did) + subject + base form verb + complement + ?
Did I play the guitar last night?
REGULAR VERB RULES

1.- We add –ed at the end of the verb

Example: Jump - Jumped
2.- If the verb ends with an –e, we only add a –d
Example: Vote – Voted
3.- If the verb ends with a consonant-vowel-
consonant we double the last consonant and add
–ed.
Example: Stop - Stopped
 REGULAR VERB RULES
Note 1 Rule #3
We only double the last consonant if the stressed is in
the last syllable
Examples: Listen – Listened
Prefer - Preferred
Note 2 Rule #3
We don’t double the consonants: w, x or y
Example: Mix – Mixed
REGULAR VERB RULES

4.- If the verb ends with consonant + -y we drop

the –y and add –ied
Example: Cry – Cried
IRREGULAR VERBS

There are no rules.

Eat – Ate
Speak – Spoke
Make – Made
Take - Took
 EXERCISES

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/verbs/past-simple/affirmative-regular-verbs-write

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/past-simple-regular/index.html

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/verbs/past-simple/affirmative-negative-write

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/verbs/past-simple/affirmative-interrogative-write