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1. Simple Past
Miss. Diana Bravo Rico
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2. Definition
We use the simple past to talk about
actions that happened at certain time in
the past, and we also use it to talk about
finished actions or completed which can
be single or repeated (happened once /
more than once).

3. Affirmative
 Subject pronoun + verb in past + complement
 I played soccer on sunday.
 He watched the movie at his house.
 We played videogames the whole night.

4. Speling rules
 Verb + -ed Play→Played
 Verb ending in e + d Type→Typed
 Verb ending in consonant + y we eliminate the y and add –ied Carry →Carried
 Verbs ending in consonant vowel consonant double the last consonant and add –
ed stop →stopped

5. Regular verbs
 Regular verbs form their past and past
participle forms by adding –ed.

6. Rules
If a verb ends in -e we simply add –d.

7. Rules
If the verb ends in a consonant and -y, we
eliminate the -y and we add -ied.

8. Rules of pronunctiation

9. Irregular Verbs
Irregular verbs form their past and past participle
forms in different ways.

10. types of irregular verbs.
Verbs in which all the three forms are the same (e.g. put –
put – put)
Verbs in which two of the three forms are the same (e.g.
sit – sat – sat)
Verbs in which all three forms are different (e.g. drink –
drank – drunk)

11. And…
Some verbs can be both regular and irregular:
Spoil – spoilt – spoilt (irregular)
Spoil – spoiled – spoiled (regular)

12. negative
 Subject pronoun + did not + verb in base form + complement.
 She didn’t cook for us.
 I did not run fast enough to catch the bus.
 You didn’t call me yesterday.

13. question
 Did + subject pronoun + verb in base form + complement?
 Did you do the homework?
 Did he call the doctor?
 Did they go to the game?

14. Time expressions
 Last
 This
 Ago
 Yesterday
 Morning
 Afternoon
 Evening
 The day before yesterday