Past: Simple Past
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Use
| Talking about things that happened in the past and are completed or over at the moment of speech
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Structure
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- Regular verbs: Infinitive + ed
- Irregular verbs: simple past form
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Signal words
| yesterday, the other day, in 2009, when, at that time
two days ago, a week ago, a month ago, …
last night, last week, last month, … |
Positive statement
| I walked, she walked, they took, he took |
Negative statement
| I didn't walk, she didn't walk, they didn't take, he didn't take |
Question
| Did I walk? Did she walk? Did they take? Did he take? |
Take a look at the following examples to get used to the context in which you would use the simple past:
- First I opened the door, then I stepped in and then I switched on the light.
- I first met Julius when I was 14.
- It was only then that I realized something was strange.
Can you find out which of the following verbs have regular past forms and which ones have irregular past forms?
Now it gets a little bit more difficult! Fill in the missing forms – you either have to find the infinitive or the simple past form!
