This document covers past tense conjugations in English, including:
- Affirmative forms of regular and irregular verbs in simple past tense.
- Negative forms which use "didn't" as the auxiliary verb.
- Interrogative forms which use "did" as the auxiliary verb to form questions.
- Time expressions that can be used with simple past such as "yesterday", "last week", and phrases using "ago" or "in/on" and a specific date or day.
2. AFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE
I was I wasn’t
You were You weren’t
He/She/It was He/She/It wasn’t
We were We weren’t
You were You weren’t
They were They weren’t
4. AFIRMATIVE
REGULAR VERBS
We form the Past Simple of regular verbs by
adding –ed to the verb:
Walk walked
Open opened
Watch watched
Ask asked
For example:
We walked to the park yesterday.
He played tennis last week.
5. IRREGULAR VERBS
Many verbs have an irregular Past Simple form:
INFINITIVE PAST
Do Did
Go Went
Have Had
Get Got
Buy Bought
Drive Drove
See Saw
Wear Wore
Eat Ate
For example:
I went to the cinema yesterday.
She bought a pair of shoes
6. NEGATIVE
We need the auxiliar verb to form the
negative, but in the past the auxiliar
verb is
Did
For example:
I didn’t like the film.
You didn’t understand the message.
He didn’t play tennis last week.
7. INTERROGATIVE
We need the auxiliar verb to make
questions, and this auxilar verb in the
past is
Did
For example:
Did you go to the party?
Did they play a football match?
Where did you buy this nice dress?
What did you do last summer?
8. Last : pasada (ex. last night,
last week, etc.)
Ago: hace… (ex. two years ago)
Yesterday: ayer
In (+ date).
On (+ day of the past).