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• Past Simple Tense

Past Simple Tense

FORM

[VERB+ed] or irregular verbs

Examples:

• You called Debbie.

• Did you call Debbie?

• You did not call Debbie.

Past Simple

Positive Negative Question

•I waited.•You waited.•We waited.•They waited.•He waited.•She waited.•It waited.

•I did not wait.•You did not wait.•We did not wait.•They did not wait.•He did not wait.•She did not wait.•It did not wait.

•Did I wait?•Did you wait?•Did we wait?•Did they wait?•Did he wait?•Did she wait?•Did it wait?

Past Simple of ‘have’

Positive Negative Question

•I had.•You had.•We had.•They had.•He had.•She had.•It had.

•I did not have.•You did not have.•We did not have.•They did not have.•He did not have.•She did not have.•It did not have.

•Did I have?•Did you have?•Did we have?•Did they have?•Did he have?•Did she have?•Did it have?

Past Simple of ‘be’

Positive Negative Question

•I was.•You were.•We were.•They were.•He was.•She was.•It was.

•I was not.•You were not.•We were not.•They were not.•He was not.•She was not.•It was not.

•Was I?•Were you?•Were we?•Were they?•Was he?•Was she?•Was it?

USE 1 Completed Action in the Past

- to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past.

Sometimes, the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have

one specific time in mind.

Examples:

• I saw a movie yesterday.

• I didn't see a play yesterday.

• Last year, I traveled to Japan.

• Last year, I didn't travel to Korea.

• Did you have dinner last night?

• She washed her car.

• He didn't wash his car.

USE 2 A Series of Completed Actions

We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed actions in the past. These actions happen 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and so on.

Examples:

• I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim.

• He arrived from the airport at 8:00, checked into the hotel at 9:00, and met the others at 10:00.

• Did you add flour, pour in the milk, and then add the eggs?

USE 3 Duration in Past

The Simple Past can be used with a duration which starts and stops in the past. A duration is a longer action often indicated by expressions such as: for two years, for five minutes, all day, all year, etc.

Examples:

• I lived in Brazil for two years.

• Shauna studied Japanese for five years.

• They sat at the beach all day.

• They did not stay at the party the entire time.

• We talked on the phone for thirty minutes.

• A: How long did you wait for them?B: We waited for one hour.

USE 4 Habits in the Past

The Simple Past can also be used to describe a habit which stopped in the past. It can have the same meaning as "used to." To make it clear that we are talking about a habit, we often add expressions such as: always, often, usually, never, when I was a child, when I was younger, etc.

Examples:

• I studied French when I was a child.

• He played the violin.

• He didn't play the piano.

• Did you play a musical instrument when you were a kid?

• She worked at the movie theater after school.

• They never went to school, they always skipped class.

USE 5 Past Facts or Generalizations

The Simple Past can also be used to describe past facts or generalizations which are no longer true. As in USE 4 above, this use of the Simple Past is quite similar to the expression "used to."

Examples:

• She was shy as a child, but now she is very outgoing.

• He didn't like tomatoes before.

• Did you live in Texas when you were a kid?

• People paid much more to make cell phone calls in the past.

Irregular verbsRank Base Form Past Tense Form Past Participle

1 say said said

2 make made made

3 go went gone

4 take took taken

5 come came come

6 see saw seen

7 know knew known

8 get got got/gotten (US)

9 give gave given

10 find found found

11 think thought thought

12 tell told told

13 become became become

14 show showed shown

15 leave left left

16 feel felt felt

17 put put put

18 bring brought brought

19 begin began begun

20 keep kept kept

21 hold held held

22 write wrote written

23 stand stood stood

24 hear heard heard

25 let let let

Irregular verbs26 mean meant meant

27 set set set

28 meet met met

29 run ran run

30 pay paid paid

31 sit sat sat

32 speak spoke spoken

33 lie lay lain

34 lead led led

35 read read read

36 grow grew grown

37 lose lost lost

38 fall fell fallen

39 send sent sent

40 build built built

41 understand understood understood

42 draw drew drawn

43 break broke broken

44 spend spent spent

45 cut cut cut

46 rise rose risen

47 drive drove driven

48 buy bought bought

49 wear wore worn

50 choose chose chosen

Practice

Practice

Practice

Put in the verbs in the correct forms.

Complete the text with the correct form of TO BE:

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy …were….. two of the most popular film comedians of all time. They were born in 1890 and 1892 respectively.Stan Laurel’s real name ………………. Arthur Jefferson. He …………….. form England.Oliver Hardy ……………… English, he was from Georgia, USA.Laurel and Hardy ……………… in their late 30s when they met. Their first film together ……………… Putting Pants on Philip (1927). They ………………. funny because they were sodifferent. Laurel ……………… small and thin. Hardy ……………. big and fat. Their most famous films …………………. Way Out West (1937) and Blockheads (1938). They …………… in any serious films, only comedies.

D) Fill in the blanks with the PAST form of the verbs:

Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. (be born) in Boston in 1706. He ………………… (be)the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He …………………(go ) toschool only one year. He …………………………… (begin) to work when he was twelve. Atthe age of fourteen he …………………………… (decide) to be a writer. He ………………….(copy) the great stories of famous writers and later he …………………………… (become) thebest known writer in his time.When he ………………….. (be) seventeen, he ………………………… (leave) Boston and…………………………… (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He……………………… (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and ……………………. (retire)from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he ………………………. (spend) the next forty years for his government. He ………………………. (play) an important role in thefounding of the USA.Franklin ……………… (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He ……………. (draw)electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He ……………………… (write) one of the first textbooks on electricity. He ……………………… (invent) a simple lightning rod and many otherpractical tools. He ……………………… (make) a study of water and ……………………….(discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even ………………………… (invent) bifocal glasses when he was seventy-eight and ……………………… (need) them himself.Franklin ……………… (do) all these things and many more because he …………….………(believe) he ………………………… (can).