FIRST MODULE

UNIT #4

TEACHER: MISS MARIA JOSÉ IÑIGUEZ

MINDS ARE LIKE PARACHUTES, THEY ONLY FUNCTION WHEN THEY AR

-James Dewar
 PAST
SIMPL
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The past tense is used to describe or indicate an action that began in the
past. Depending on how we form the past tense, it might describe actions
that happened or were completed in the past, were occurring at the same
time as something else in the past, or continued to happen until or near
the present time.
 WHEN DO WE USUALLY USE PAST SIMPLE?
We use the past tense to talk about:

•Something that happened once in the past:

I met my best friend in 2015.
They went to Quito for their holidays.
My sister got home very late last night.

•Something that happened several times in the past:

When I was a child, I walked to school every day.
We practiced the English exercises a lot while we were on vacation.
He always enjoyed playing with his grandpa (grandfather).

•Something that was true for some time in the past:

I lived abroad for ten years.
He enjoyed studying in Franciscano Salitre high school.
She played a lot of basketball when she was younger.

•We often use expressions with ago with the past simple:

I met my teacher a long time ago.
I bought my cellphone two years ago.
 HOW TO FORMULATE THE PAST
For regular verbs, add -ed to the root form ofSIMPLE?
the verb (or just -d if the root form already ends in
an e: Play → Played
Type → Typed
Listen → Listened
Push → Pushed
Love → Loved
For irregular verbs, things get more complicated. The simple past tense of some irregular verbs looks
exactly like the root form:
Put → Put
Cut → Cut
Set → Set
Cost → Cost
Hit → Hit

For other irregular verbs, including the verb to be, the simple past forms are more erratic:

See → Saw
Build → Built
Go → Went
Do → Did
Rise → Rose
Am/Is/Are → Was/Were
 IRREGULAR VERBS LIST

50+ Regular and Irregular Verbs List in English - EnglishBix

 ENGLISH GRAMMAR

PAST SIMPLE VERB TENSE

POSITIVE STATEMENTS
• There are two kinds of main verbs that are used in the past simple tense:
PAST SIMPLE TENSE (REGULAR VERBS)
SUBJECT VERB IN PAST FORM REST OF THE SENTENCE
I WALKED TO THE STORE
YESTERDAY.
WE PLAYED FOOTBALL LAST NIGHT.
THEY COOKED THE DINNER.
PAST SIMPLE TENSE (IRREGULAR VERBS)
SUBJECT VERB IN PAST FORM REST OF THE SENTENCE
I ATE TOO MUCH PIZZA.
WE CAME SCHOOL EARLY TODAY.
THE GIRLS STUDIED FOR THE LESSON ALL
NIGHT.
EXTRA INFORMATION: IN SOME CASES YOU CAN FIND SITUATIONES WHERE
THE PAST SIMPLE IS USED IN ITS EXPANDED FORM: I DID WALK TO THE STORE
YESTERDAY
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR

PAST SIMPLE VERB TENSE

NEGATIVE STATEMENTS
•The auxiliary verb "did" is added after the subject
•"not" is added between the auxiliary verb "did" and the main verb
•the main verb stays in the base form

PAST SIMPLE TENSE IN NEGATIVE FORM

SUBJECT AUXILIAR NOT VERB IN REST OF THE
VERB BASE FORM SENTENCE
I DID NOT WALK TO THE STORE
YESTERDAY.
WE DID NOT PLAY FOOTBALL
LAST NIGHT.
THEY DID NOT COOK THE DINNER.

EXTRA INFORMATION: YOU CAN USE THE SHORT FORM OR ABREVATION OF

DID NOT: DIDN’T
EXAMPLE: I DIDN’T WALK TO THE STORE YESTERDAY
 ENGLISH GRAMMAR

PAST SIMPLE VERB TENSE

INTERROGATIVE FORM
•The auxiliary verb "did" comes before the subject
The main verb stays in the base form.
PAST SIMPLE TENSE IN INTERROGATIVE FORM

AUXILIAR SUBJECT VERB IN REST OF THE

VERB BASE FORM SENTENCE
DID I WALK TO THE STORE
YESTERDAY?
DID WE PLAY FOOTBALL
LAST NIGHT?
DID THEY COOK THE DINNER?