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THE PAST
PAST
SIMPLE
SIMPLE
Juan
Juan Carlos
Carlos Zapata
Zapata VV
Cod
Cod 1090080
1090080
Teacher:
Teacher: Angel
Angel Watler
Watler
English
English III
III
Basic
Basic Education
Education Program
Program
University
University San
San Buenaventura
Buenaventura –– seccional
seccional Cali
Cali
2010
2010
The English has two types of verbs in
the past tense
Regular verbs are verbs Irregular verbs are verbs that DON’T end with – ED
that end with – ED
Exception VERB BE
Regular verbs
Walk Walk - ed
Study Studi - ed
Cry Cri – ed
Live Liv - ed
Some irregular verbs have
a vowel change in the past
tense
become became
give gave
drive drove
forgot
forget
Other irregular verbs have a
different kind of change
Simple Past
teach taught
bring brought
Leave left
Hear heard
Buy bought
And some irregular verbs do not change at all
Simple Past
hit hit
put put
set set
FOR POSITIVE SENTENCES USE
For regular verbs, simply use For irregular verbs, use the correct
the – ed form of the verb in a past tense form in positive
positive sentence. sentences
+
simple
OR form
DidN’t
+
WAS
NOT
OR
WERE
Recently
Last year
Last month Yesterday
Last week Ago
t d id
Some regular Other regular
Some regular
verbs end with verbs end with an
verbs end with
a “d” sound: “id” sound:
a “t” sound: