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Past Participle

This document provides an introduction to using past simple tense in English grammar. It discusses: 1) How past simple is used to describe finished or repeated past actions and with time expressions like yesterday. 2) The rules for forming regular past simple verbs by adding "-ed", "-d", or "-ied" and irregular past simple forms. 3) How the auxiliary verb "to be" is conjugated in past simple affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms depending on the subject. 4) How other verbs use "did" in past simple negative and interrogative forms instead of changing the verb. 5) Some common mistakes made in using past simple tense.

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Past Participle

This document provides an introduction to using past simple tense in English grammar. It discusses: 1) How past simple is used to describe finished or repeated past actions and with time expressions like yesterday. 2) The rules for forming regular past simple verbs by adding "-ed", "-d", or "-ied" and irregular past simple forms. 3) How the auxiliary verb "to be" is conjugated in past simple affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms depending on the subject. 4) How other verbs use "did" in past simple negative and interrogative forms instead of changing the verb. 5) Some common mistakes made in using past simple tense.

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GRAMMAR:

PAST SIMPLE
Introduction to Past Simple Tense

SAS, GEP Level 3, STM Campus


Past Simple
Past Simple - Usage (Verb ”to be”
Vs
Verbs other than “to be”)
1. We use “Past Simple” to describe finished or completed action/situation in the past.
○ I watched a film last night.
○ He won the world cup in 1993.

2. We use “Past Simple” to talk about repeated events, or habits in the past.
○ When he was young, he always walked to school.
○ When Fred was in the army, he went to many countries.

3. We use “Past Simple” with time expression such as yesterday, last night, the day before
yesterday, last week/month/year, two days/years/months/weeks ago…
○ He graduated from his university yesterday.
○ Last night, I walked to Ms. Ann’s house with my friend.

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Regular and Irregular Verbs (1)
Regular verbs are verbs that follow a regular pattern when switching between forms (present
simple, past simple and past participles). The rule is to add “-ed”, “-ied” or “-d” to the
based form of the verb to create past simple form.

1. Add “–ed” to most of the verbs.


○ jump / paint / walk jumped / painted / walked

2. Add “-d” to the verbs that end in “-e”.


○ decide / phone / arrive decided / phoned /arrived

3. Verbs that end in a consonant with “-y”, we take away “-y” and add “-ied”.
○ study / cry / try studied / cried / tried
Vowel + Consonant => Double Consonant
4. Verbs that end in one vowel + one consonant, we double the consonant and add “-ed”.
○ stop / chat / prefer stopped / chatted / preferred

5. If the final consonant is “w”, “x” or “y”, don’t double theVowel + “w, x,
consonant. y” => Don’t Double Consonant

○ sew / play / fix sewed / played / fixed


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Regular and Irregular Verbs (2)
Irregular verbs are verbs that do not follow a regular pattern when switching between forms
(present simple, past simple and past participles). The rule of adding “-ed”, “-ied” or “-d”
to the based form of the regular verb can not be used with irregular verbs.

1. Irregular verbs are formed by changing vowels.


○ begin / drink began / drank

2. Irregular verbs are formed by changing consonants.


○ send / make sent / made

3. Irregular verbs are formed by changing vowels and consonants.


○ teach / fly taught / flew

4. There is no change in forms for some verbs.


○ let / cut let / cut

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Past Simple with “To Be”
1. In affirmative form, we conjugate ”to be” with respect to its subject. Take a look at the
following tables.

Subject Pronouns To Be Examples


I was I was at my grandparents’ home yesterday.
You were late for the party.
You / We / They were We were very tired yesterday.
They were born in 1943.
She was my student.
He / She / It was He was very mad at you at the party.
It was a very good experience.

wasn’t = was not


2. In negative form, we conjugate ”to be” with respect to its subject and then we add “not”.
○ It wasn’t difficult. weren’t = were not
○ His parents weren’t happy.
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Past Simple with “To Be”
3. In interrogative form, we changed to position of was / were with the subject. Here is the
form of Past Simple in interrogative form.

Was / Were + Subject + (Object / Complement) + ?


○ Was I in Italy last week? Yes, I was. / No, I wasn’t.
○ Was Sophia sleepy? Yes, she was. / No, she wasn’t.
○ Were they at work? Yes, they were. / No, they weren’t.

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Past Simple with verbs other than “To Be”
1. In affirmative form, we conjugate the verbs according to its form.
○ I talked to her about the exam last night.
○ He studied physics in the university.
○ I always understood the lessons well.

2. In negative form, unlike “to be”, we use auxiliary verb “did” with not.
○ I didn’t talk to her about the exam last night. (not didn’t talked)
○ He didn’t study physics in the university. (not didn’t studied)
○ I didn’t always understand the lessons well. (not didn’t understood)

3. In interrogative form, unlike “to be”, we use auxiliary verb “did”.

Did + Subject + Verb + (Object / Complement) + ?


○ Did he study physics at the university? Yes, he did. / No, he didn’t.
○ Did you always understand the lesson well? Yes, I did. / No, I didn’t
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Common Confusion
These are some common mistakes with past simple tense.

Incorrect Correct
I was talk to the teacher after class. I talked to the teacher after class
Did you talked to the teacher after class? Did you talk to the teacher after class?
Last year, my daughter be very slim. Last year, my daughter was very slim.
We didn’t went surfing last year. We didn’t go surfing last year.
The teacher refuse to give me homework The teacher refused to give me homework
when I asked him. when I asked him.

Present tense
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Past tense

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