Simple PastAffirmativeNegative

Interrogative

Verb to be - Affirmative• I was• You were• He was• She was• It was• We were• You were• They were

Verb to be – Negative form

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

not

• I wasn’t• You weren’t• He wasn’t• She wasn’t• It wasn’t• We weren’t• You weren’t• They

weren’t

Verb to be – Interrogative form

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

Regular Verbs

•Verb + EDWant-edwanted

paint

painted

listen

listened

want

wanted

visit

visited

look

looked

check

checked

walk

walked

arrive

arrived

Want

Wanted

travel

traveled

show

showed

Irregular Verbs

• Memorize them!

Let’s go!

Go

Went

make

made

have

had

Break

Broke

Build

Built

Buy

Bought

Can

Could

Catch

Caught

Come

Came

Cost

Cost

Do

Did

Drink

Drank

Drive

Drove

Eat

Ate

Fall

Fell

Feel

Felt

Find

Found

Fly

Flew

Forget

Forgot

Get

Got

Give

Gave

Know

Knew

Leave

Left

Lose

Lost

Make

Made

Meet

Met

Pay

Paid

Put

Put

Read

Read

Ring

Rang

Run

Ran

Say

Said

See

Saw

Send

Sent

Sing

Sang

Sit

Sat

Sleep

Slept

Speak

Spoke

Spend

Spent

Stand

Stood

Swim

Swam

Take

Took

Tell

Told

Think

Thought

Throw

Threw

Wake up

Woke up

Wear

Wore

Win

Won

Write

Wrote

Affirmative Form

• I went• You went• He went• She went• It went• We went• You went• They went

• The same form of the verb for all the persons.• Very simple!

Auxiliary verb in the Simple Past

Did

Did

Used only in the Negative and

Interrogative forms

Negative Form

• I didn’t go• You didn’t go• He didn’t go• She didn’t go• It didn’t go• We didn’t go• You didn’t go• They didn’t

go

• When the sentence is negative I use the

auxiliary verb (didn’t) and the main verb is written in the

base form again.

I ate the pizza.I didn’t eat the

pizza.

He wrote a poem.

He didn’t write a poem.

He ate the sandwich.He didn’t eat the sandwich.

I sent the e-mail.

I didn’t send the e-mail.

I lost my key.I didn’t lose my

key.

I drove to Miami.I didn’t drive to

Miami.

I made a chocolate cake yesterday.

I didn’t make a chocolate

cake yesterday.

Interrogative Form• Did I go?• Did you go?• Did he go?• Did she go?• Did it go?• Did we go?• Did you go?• Did they go?

Did you go to the cinema yesterday?

•Yes, I did.•No, I didn’t.

Did she see her friend at the party

last weekend?•Yes, she did.•No, she didn’t.

Did they travel to New York last

vacation?•Yes, they did.•No, they didn’t.

Did he paint the house last week?

•Yes, he did.•No, he didn’t.

The End

Thanks for watching.Adriana Pires