2. Simple past tense
The simple past is a verb tense that is used to talk about
things that happened or existed before now.
Wolfgang entered a hula hoop contest.
He won the silver medal.
3. How to formulate Simple Past Tense
For regular verbs, add -ed to the root form of the verb (or
just -d if the root form already ends in an e):
4. How to formulate Simple Past Tense
For irregular verbs, things get more complicated. The simple
past tense of some irregular verbs looks exactly like the
root form:
put - put
hit - hit
cut - cut
5. How to formulate Simple Past Tense
For other irregular verbs, including the verb to be, the
simple past forms are more erratic:
go - went
drink - drank
is/are - was/were
6. Negative Form
The formula is did not + [root form of verb]. You can also
use the contraction didn’t instead of did not.
Sebastian did not do his homework
Taylor did not perform ´´I knew you were trouble´´ at her
concert
7. Negative Form
For the verb to be, you don’t need the auxiliary did. When
the subject of the sentence is singular, use was not or
wasn’t. When the subject is plural, use were not or weren’t.
Garret was not completely sad after all
They weren't at school yesterday
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