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Past Simple 1
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Grammar Guide

2. Past Time
Regular verbs
Simply add –ed to the bare infinitive.
Verbs ending in –e, just add -d
•I enjoyed the film
•I loved the film
All persons have the same form
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3. Past Time
Regular verbs
Verbs ending on consonant plus –y – change the –y to -ie
•try - tried
•cry - cried
Verbs ending with one vowel and one consonant –
double the final consonant
•regret – regretted
•fit - fitted
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4. Past Time
Irregular verbs
Irregular Verbs take on many different forms
•eat - ate
•drink – drank
•wake – woke
•take – took
•be - was
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5. Past Time
Questions
For questions it is did + the bare infinitive
•Did you enjoy the film?
•What did you do yesterday?
•Did you drink all the milk?
•Why did she leave?
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6. Past Time
Negatives
For negatives it is did not + the bare infinitive
This is contracted in speech and informal writing
•The coat didn’t fit me.
•Emma didn’t eat very much.
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7. Past Time
Past Simple Meaning
An action and states that are completed
in a period of time
We know when the action was so we can use a time expressions
•I enjoyed the film we saw last night.
•We listened to the radio yesterday afternoon
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8. Past Time
Past Simple Meaning
Also used to describe a habit in the past
•Every day, we got up early and went to the beach.
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9. Past Time
Past Continuous
The form is the past of the auxiliary verb be
+ the ing form of the main verb
•I was sitting by the door.
•You were laughing.
•He was driving
•We were crying
•They were eating
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10. Past Time
Past Continuous - questions
Invert the subject and he auxiliary verb be
•Was I sleeping? •Were we talking?
•Were you waiting? •Were they leaving?
•Was she driving?
Wh- questions follow the same pattern
•What were you writing? •Why were they waiting?
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11. Past Time
Past Continuous - negatives
Invert the subject and he auxiliary verb be
•Was I sleeping? •Were we talking?
•Were you waiting? •Were they leaving?
•Was she driving?
Wh- questions follow the same pattern
•What were you writing? •Why were they waiting?
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12. Past Time
Past Continuous - meaning
Describes a situation in progress in the past
Past simple – sudden event in the past
Background situation Sudden Event
•I was having my lunch •Emma rang
•While I was waiting for the bus. •I met Peter
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13. Past Time
Past Continuous - meaning
Also describes several situations in progress
at the same time
•While Emma was cooking, Paul was phoning a friend.
•The airport was full of people. Some were sleeping on
benches, some were shopping, other were reading.
Everyone was waiting on news of the delayed flight.
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14. Past Time
Time expressions
With past simple
•I arrived 2 hours ago/in May/last week/at 5pm.
•Helen lived in Seville for four years.
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15. Past Time
Time expressions
With past continuous
We can use when or while to mean ‘during the time that’
•While we were waiting on the train, it started to rain.
•I cut my finger when I was peeling the potatoes
If we mean ‘at the time that’
then we only use when with the past simple
•She was very happy when she got he exam results
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