SIMPLE PAST
MEMBERS:
- RAMIREZ ROMAN, MERELYN DEL PILAR
- CABALLERO SORIA, DANIEL ANGEL
There are many ways to talk about the past in English, but the simple past is the
most common way. We use the simple past for complete actions in last. In the
simple past there are regular verbs and irregular verbs.
GRAMMATICAL RULES
FORM
To form the simple past with regular verbs, we add the ending "-ed" to
verb.The form is the same for all people (I, you, he, she, it, we, they).
EXAMPLES
• want → wanted
• learn → learned
• stay → stayed
• walk → walked
• show → showed
• EXCEPTIONS:
• For verbs that end in an "e", we only add "-d.
EXAMPLES: change → changed
believe → believed
• If the verb ends in a short vowel and a consonant (except "y" or "w"), we
doubled the final consonant.
EXAMPLES: stop → stopped
commit → committed
• With verbs that end in a consonant and a "y", the "y" is changed to an "i“
EXAMPLES: study → studied
try → tried
Note: There are many irregular
verbs in English. Unfortunately, Verb Past Simple
there is no established norm to Be was (I, he, she, it) / were (you, we, they)
train them. Next you have the
Do did
three irregular verbs most
common and those that act as Have had
auxiliary verbs.
STRUCTURE
1. Affirmative Sentences
SUBJECT + VERB (PAST) + COMPLEMENT
- YOU ……………. (GO) TO CINEMA YESTERDAY
- DANIEL ...................(VISIT) HIS PARENTS LAST WEEK
2. Negative Sentences
SUBJECT + DIDN’T + VERB (BASIC FORM) + COMPLEMENT
- SHE DIDN’T …………….(GO) TO CINEMA YESTERDAY
- DANIEL DIDN’T…………… (VISIT) HIS PARENTS LAST WEEK
3. Interrogative Sentences
DID + SUBJECT + VERB(BASIC FORM) + COMPLEMENT
- DID YOU ……………(GO) TO THA CINEMA YESTERDAY?
- DID DANIEL …………(VISIT) HIS PARENTS LATS WEEK?
- ANSWER IS:
• YES, HE DID
• NO, HE DIDN’T
USES
1. The simple past is used to talk about a concrete action that started and ended
in the past. Generally, we use it with adverbs of time like "last year",
"yesterday", "last night” “ago”
Tom stayed at home last night. (Tom se quedó en casa anoche.)
Kate worked last Saturday. (Kate trabajó el sábado pasado.)
I didn't go to the party yesterday. (No fui a la fiesta ayer.)
Did they walk to school this morning? (¿Han andado a la escuela esta
mañana?)
SPECIAL VERBS: TO BE (WAS/WERE)
• “TO BE” ( WAS/ WERE)
• WAS ( I, HE, SHE IT)
• WERE (WE,YOU, THEY)
• AFFIRMATIVE SENTECES:
- SUBJECT + VERB(PAST) + COMPLEMENTE
SHE …………AT SCHOOL AT 2 P.M.
THEY ………….PLAYING FOOTBALL YESTERDAY.
• NEGATIVE SENTECES:
- SUBJECT + VERB(AUX NOT) + COMPLEMENT
SHE ………….AT SCHOOL AT 2 P.M.
THEY…………PLAYING SOCCER YESTERDAY
• INTERROGATIVEM SENTENCES:
- VERB(PAST) + SUBJECT + COMPLEMENT
…………….. SHE AT SCHOOL AT 2 P.M.?
……………YOU PLAYING SOCCER YESTERDAY?
VERBS CAN (COULD)
• “CAN” (COULD)
• AFFIRMATIVE SENTECES:
- SUBJECT + COULD + COMPLEMENTE
SHE ………………...RUN VERY FAST
• NEGATIVE SENTECES:
- SUBJECT + COULDN’T + COMPLEMENT
SHE ........................ SPEAK
• INTERROGATIVEM SENTENCES:
- COULD + SUBJECT + COMPLEMENT
…………… YOU SPEAK FRENCH?
