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    Read Wen Came Took: Specific Time in The Past

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    The document discusses the simple past tense in English grammar. It provides examples of how to form the simple past of regular and irregular verbs. It also discusses signal words that are commonly used with the simple past tense like "yesterday" and "last week". Questions in the simple past can be formed using "did" plus the subject and infinitive. The simple past of the verb "to be" is also covered along with forming negative sentences in the simple past.

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    The document discusses the simple past tense in English grammar. It provides examples of how to form the simple past of regular and irregular verbs. It also discusses signal words that are commonly used with the simple past tense like "yesterday" and "last week". Questions in the simple past can be formed using "did" plus the subject and infinitive. The simple past of the verb "to be" is also covered along with forming negative sentences in the simple past.

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    The document discusses the simple past tense in English grammar. It provides examples of how to form the simple past of regular and irregular verbs. It also discusses signal words that are commonly used with the simple past tense like "yesterday" and "last week". Questions in the simple past can be formed using "did" plus the subject and infinitive. The simple past of the verb "to be" is also covered along with forming negative sentences in the simple past.

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    Simple Past - English grammar http://first-english.

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    Simple Past – Examples and rules – English tenses

    Simple Past

    Examples: Simple Past

    First I read a book, then I went to bed yesterday evening. Last week I came to a church and then I took the road right.

    Simple Past describes an action started and finished at a specific time in the past.

    Examples:

    Bob got a bike yesterday.


    Mr Thompson had a great time in America last year.

    Simple Past – regular verbs

    Regular verbs make their past tense by adding -d, -ed, or (if the verb ends in a
    consonant + y), changing the y to i and adding -ed.

    Special notes:

    Verb ending... add ... Examples


    -e Add -d live - lived
    bake - baked
    consonant + y Change 'y' to i and add -ed carry - carried
    cry - cried
    1 vowel + 1 consonant Double consonant and stop - stopped
    add -ed

    Simple Past - irregular verbs

    Examples: Simple Past tense irregular verbs:

    Present - Past Present - Past


    begin - began fall - fell
    break - broke forget - forgot
    come - came get - got
    drink - drank speak - spoke
    Simple Past - Signal Words

    Signal words: ago, in 2011 ..., in 1999 ..., last month, last week, last year,
    yesterday, at 5 o'clock

    Examples Simple Past signal words

    I ate oranges last year.


    We went to school eyery day in 1999. He took his dog for a walk a month ago.

    http://first-english.org/english_learning/tenses_english.htm
    English grammar with rules, explanations, online exercises, examples and PDF - for free.
    Simple Past - questions

    'did' + usubject + infinitive

    Examples: Simple Past questions

    I ate apple in 2005. Did I eat apples in 2005?


    We went to London last week. Did we go to London last week?
    He took his dog for a walk last week. Did he take his dog for a walk last week?

    Simple Past - questions with was/were

    Examples:

    She was in London. Was she in London?


    They were at the station. Were they at the station?

    Simple Past negative

    Long form: I did not go.


    Short form: I didn't go.

    Examples:
    I knew Covent Garden?I did't know Covent Garden.
    We went to school eyery day. We didn't go to school every day. He took his dog for a walk. He didn't take his dog for a walk.

    Simple Past - 'to be' negative form


    positive negative
    long form short form
    I was was not wasn't
    You were were not weren't
    He/She was was not wasn't
    We were were not weren't
    You were were not weren't
    They were were not weren't

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