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The document provides a comprehensive overview of the Past Simple tense in English, detailing its forms for regular and irregular verbs, as well as how to construct negative sentences and questions. It includes examples and rules for verb conjugation, emphasizing the use of time expressions to indicate completed actions in the past. Additionally, it features exercises for practice in forming affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences in the Past Simple tense.

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The document provides a comprehensive overview of the Past Simple tense in English, detailing its forms for regular and irregular verbs, as well as how to construct negative sentences and questions. It includes examples and rules for verb conjugation, emphasizing the use of time expressions to indicate completed actions in the past. Additionally, it features exercises for practice in forming affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences in the Past Simple tense.

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The Past Simple

Yesterday, he walked to the train station

1- The Forms of The Past Simple:


1.1. For Regular Verbs: For the majority of verbs the rule is sample; the
sentence starts with the subject than the verb and we add an “ed”.

Subject + verb + ed

Examples:

➢ I watched a nice movie, last night.

➢ She studied hard to become a doctor.

➢ My friends cleaned my rood for me.

▪ Note:
✓ If the verb ends in an “e”, such as, to die, to close we add only a “d” so it
becomes; died – closed.
✓ If the verb ends in a “y”, and preceded by a consonant, such as, to hurry, to
carry, we change the “y” to an “i” and add “ed” so it becomes; hurried, carried.
✓ If the verb ends in a “l”, such as, to cancel, to travel, we always double the “l”
so it becomes; cancelled, travelled.
✓ For these verbs we double the last consonant : Stop - Stopped / Plan – Planned/
Prefer - Preferred / Regret - Regretted

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1.2. For Irregular Verbs: There is no rules for irregular verbs. The
following list contain a collection of the most used irregular verbs.

List of the most common irregular verbs


Verbs Past simple Verbs Past simple
Break Broke Make Made
Buy Bought Pay Paid
Build Built Run Ran
Catch Caught Say Said
Choose Chose See Saw
Come Came Send Sent
Do Did Seek Sought
Drink Drank Sell sold
Eat Ate Speak Spoke
Fall Fell Spend Spent
Find Found Think Thought
Fight Fought Take Took
Forget Forgot Teach Taught
Get Got Tell Told
Give Gave Upset Upset
Go Went Write Wrote
Have Had Cut Cut
Keep Kept Hit Hit
Know Knew Put Put
Leave Left Read Read
Lose Lost Split Split

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1.3. For the Negative: We put the subject first and we add “did not”
(didn’t) + the verb in the infinitive

Subject + did not / (didn’t) + verb in the infinitive

Examples:

➢ I did not / (didn’t) come to the meeting, yesterday.

➢ Jinny did not / (didn’t) accept the invitation.

➢ The workers did not / didn’t stop the strike.


1.4. For questions: We put “did” first followed by the subject and we add
the verb in the infinitive form, we end the sentence with a question
mark.

Affirmative Negative Question


I worked I did not (didn’t) work Did I work?
You worked You did not (didn’t) work Did you work?
He/She/It worked He/She/It did not (didn’t) work Did he/she/it work?
We worked We did not (didn’t) work Did we work?
They worked They did not (didn’t) work Did they work?

1.5. The verb “to be”:

Affirmative Negative Question


I was I was not / I wasn’t Was I?
You were You were not / You weren’t Where you?
He/She/It was He/She/It was not /wasn’t Was he/she/it?
We were We were not/ We weren’t Were we?
They were They were not / The weren’t Where they?

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2- The past simple in use:
• A Completed action in the past: We use the past simple to describe
an action that started and finished at a specific time in the past.

For example;

➢ Last night I watched television.


➢ Ali played football 3 days ago.
➢ They studied hard for the last weekend.

Time expressions for the past simple

▪ Last night, last week, last month, last year.


▪ 10 minutes ago, 4 days ago, 3 weeks ago, a month ago, 2 years ago.
▪ Yesterday.

• A series of completed actions:

For example;

➢ Today I went to London, bought a camera and then took some


photographs.
➢ I fought the law and law won.

• Duration in the past:

For example;

➢ Sarah and David talked for two hours.


➢ Mark waited all morning.

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▪ When clauses: when we have two clauses in the past simple, the “the when
clause” happens before the main clause (in time)

For example; Mark woke up / Mark shaved

We can say: When mark woke up, he shaved.

Or: Mark shaved when he woke up.

Exercise 01: Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form using the past simple.

1- This morning I………(to be) late because I ……….(to walk) to work.


✓ This morning I was late because I walked to work.
2- Last week it …………… (to rain) every day.
✓ last week it rained every day.
3- Yesterday my children ……………..(to be) happy because they…..…..
(to go) to the park.
✓ Yesterday my children were happy because they went to the park.
4- We ……………..( (to be) on the road when it …………… (to snow)
✓ We were on the road when it snowed.

Exercise 02: put the verbs in bracket in the correct question form using the past
simple.

1- (to eat / they) breakfast this morning


✓ Did they eat breakfast this morning?
2- (to be / Mark) angry with me yesterday
✓ Was mark angry with me yesterday?
3- (to close / I) the front door
✓ Did I close the front door?

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4- (to cry / she) after the leaving.
✓ Did she cry after the leaving?

Exercise 03: put the verbs in bracket in the correct negative form using the past
simple. Use the contracted form.

1- She (to go) to London last week.


✓ She didn’t go to London last week.
2- I (to read) the newspaper this morning.
✓ I didn’t read the newspaper this morning.
3- My parents (to like) the girl I want to marry.
✓ My parent’s didn’t like the girl I want to marry.

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