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This document provides an overview of simple past tense grammar rules in English. It explains that the simple past describes completed actions that happened before now or in sequence in the past. It provides examples of simple past tense verbs and irregular verbs. It also discusses how to form simple past questions, negatives, and uses signal words to indicate when a past action occurred.

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Simple Past 0 English Grammar Rules Explanations PDF

This document provides an overview of simple past tense grammar rules in English. It explains that the simple past describes completed actions that happened before now or in sequence in the past. It provides examples of simple past tense verbs and irregular verbs. It also discusses how to form simple past questions, negatives, and uses signal words to indicate when a past action occurred.

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name: …………………............. class: …………… date: ……………................

Simple past rules, examples

The Simple past describes a completed action in a time before now and things that
happen one after another in the past.

1. Examples: Simple Past

First Bob read a book, then he went to bed yesterday night.


Last week I came to a church and then I took the road right.

2. Actions at a specific time

Simple Past: Actions that happened at a specific time in the past.

3. Examples simple past tense:

I got a present yesterday. I had in great time in America last year.

4. Simple past regular verbs

Add -ed to the regular verb. look - looked, watch - watched,


Some verbs you need to change a bit.

Verb ending in... Add ... Example

-e only add - d live - lived


date - dated

Consonant +y Change y to i an add -ed carry - carried


cry - cried

1 vowel + 1 consonant Double consonant and stop - stopped


add -ed

5. Simple Past regular verbs – examples

Add -ed to the regular verb.


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name: …………………............. class: …………… date: ……………................

cook - cooked, play - played, wash - washed


-e at the end of the verb: only add -d.
love - loved, live - lived, close - closed, live – lived

6. Simple past irregular (not regular) verbs

Some verbs are not regular. You have to learn them by heart.

Example: Simple Past tense - irregular verbs: 

begin - began fall - fell


break - broke forget - forgot
come - came get -  got
drink - drank speak - spoke

7. To be - Simple past

Example: Simple Past tense - irregular verbs:  to be

Simple present Simple past


I am I was
you are you were
he/she/it is he/she/it was
we are we were
you are you were
they are they were

8. Simple past signal words

Use the simple past when you say when something happened. See the following
signal words:
frequency: often, sometimes, always
We sometimes had no school.
a definite point in time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
They were in London last week.

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name: …………………............. class: …………… date: ……………................

an indefinite point in time: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago
He learned English when he was young.
More simple past signal words: ago, in 2011, in 1999, ... last month, last week, last
year, yesterday.

Examples: Simple Past signal words

I ate oranges last year.


We went to school eyery day in 1999.
He took his dog for a walk a month ago.

9. Simple past - questions

To form a question: 'did' + subject + infinitive.

Examples: questions Simple Past

I ate oranges in 2011. Did I eat oranges in 2011?


We went to school last week. Did we go to school last week?
He took his dog for a walk last week. Did he take his dog for a walk last week?

10. Questions with was/were

Sentences with 'to be' (was/were). Questions with was/were -Simple Past.

She was in London. Was she in London?


They were at the station. Were they at the station?

11. Simple past negative

Negative sentences Simple Past: examples


I knew Covent Garden?   I didn't know Covent Garden.
We went to school eyery day.  We didn't go to school every day.
He took his dog for a walk.  He didn't take his dog for a walk.

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