Simple past - Katherine Vásquez
- 2. The simple past (also called past simple, past indefinite or preterite) is a verb tense which is used to show that a completed action took place at a specific time in the past. The simple past is also frequently used to talk about past habits and generalizations.
- 3. Often, sometimes, always. I sometimes walked home at lunchtime. I often brought my lunch to school. Last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago. We saw a good film last week. Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva. She finished her work atseven o'clock. The other day, ages ago, a long time ago People lived in caves a long time ago. She played the piano when she was a child. : Note: the term ago is useful to express time distance in the past. It is placed after the period of time in question: a week ago, three years ago, a minute ago .
- 4. Regular past simple forms are formed by adding - ed to the infinitive of the verb. but there are some spelling rules. If a verb ends in -e, you add -d. If a verb ends in a vowel and a consonant, the consonant is usually doubled before -ed. If a verb ends in consonant and -y, you take off the y and add -ied. But if the word ends in a vowel and -y, you add -ed.
- 5. To go He went to a club last night. Did he go to the cinema last night? He didn't go to bed early last night. To give We gave her a doll for her birthday. They didn't give John their new address. Did Barry give you my passport? To come My parents came to visit me last July. We didn't come because it was raining. Did he come to your party last week?
- 6. The affirmative form of "simple past" is simple. I was in Japan last year She had a headache yesterday. We did our homework last night. For the negative and interrogative forms of the "simple past" of the verb "do" as an ordinary verb, it is used as an auxiliary "do", egWe didn't do our homework last night.The negative form of the verb "have" in "simple past" is usually constructed using the auxiliary "do" , although sometimes only the notion or the contraction "n't" is added .The interrogative form of the verb "have" in "simple past" usually uses the auxiliary "do".