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PAST SIMPLE�

FORM:

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Subject

Verb + d, ed, ied�or irregular form (V2)

Rest of Sentence

I / He / She

/ It You /

We / They

walked

to the shop yesterday

slept

late last Saturday

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Negative�

Subject

didn’t + verb in the

base form

Rest of Sentence

I / He / She / It

You / We /

They

didn’t walk

to the shop yesterday

didn’t sleep

late last Saturday

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Interrogative:

Auxiliary Verb

Subject

verb in base form

rest of sentence

Did

I / you / we / they

walk

to the shop yesterday

he / she / it

sleep

late last Saturday

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The past simple shows us that an action was in the past, not in the present. Regular past simple verbs have -ed at the end (e.g. called, played, arrived). Irregular verbs have a different form, usually with a different vowel sound (e.g. wake → woke, break → broke, feel → felt).

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USE

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  • We use the past tense to talk about:

1-something that happened once in the past:

e.g: I met my wife in 1983.

2-something that happened several times in the past:

e.g: When I was a boy, I walked a mile to school every day.

3-something that was true for some time in the past:

e.g: I lived abroad for ten years.

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  • The most common time expressions used for the past simple are: 
  • yesterday, a week, month, year……. ago, last month, year, weekend, Monday, night, the day before yesterday, two days ,months, years……..ago.
  • The time expression appears either at the beginning or at the end of the sentence – never in the middle of the sentence.

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Pronunciation of « ed » of the past

  • There are three different ways to pronounce the 'ed' ending of regular verbs in the simple past tense:

/ Id / , / t / or / d /.��The pronunciation depends on the sound at the end of the infinitve of the main verb and whether it is voiced or not.

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/Id /

�infinitives that end in the sounds �/t/ or /d/�

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/ d /

�infinitives that end in a voiced sound�

/ t /

�infinitves that end in an unvoiced sound �

needed �hated�dated�seated

lived�chilled�enjoyed�tried

shopped�picked�wished�crunched