Simple Past Tense-Form-Meaning and Use-Pronunciation

How do we form the simple past tense?

English has two types of verbs in the past:

-regular -irregular

Let’s read the following list of past tense verbs….. Which are regular and which are irregular?

walked regularstudied regulartaught irregulargave irregularbecame irregularcried regularlived regulardid irregular

Regular verbs are verbs that end with -ed

Simple form verbs:

walk

study

cry

live

Past tense verbs:

walked

studied

cried

lived

Rules for adding –ed:

Add –ed to most verbsDrop the “e” and add “ed” to verbs that end with

“e” (smile= smiled). Change the “y” to “i” and add –ed to verbs that

end with a consonant and “y” (carry= carried, study= studied).

Double the consonant and add –ed to verbs that end with one vowel and one consonant ( drag= dragged, stop= stopped).

Irregular verbs are verbs that don’t end in –ed…….. Sometimes with irregular

past tense verbs you have to change the vowel to make the verb past tense:

become becamegive gavedrive droveforget forgot

Other irregular verbs have a different kind of change…..you need to memorize these!

teach

bring

leave

hear

buy

taught

brought

left

heard

bought

Why do we use past tense verbs?

TO TELL THAT AN ACTION IS COMPLETED!!!!!! FINISHED!!! OVER!!!

PRONOUNCIATION OF REGULAR VERBS……

The –ed ending in English has three different sounds:

t: walked, talked, jumped

d: played, loved, answered

id: invited, waited decided....

*With –id sounding words, there is another syllable!

How can you practice past tense verbs?

Phonemically (word sorts)Bingo!ModelingSurvey says……Nancy Fetzer………

Direct instruction + muiltiple opportunities to practice = Skill mastery!!!!!