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Simple Past Tense

Simple Past Tense. To express what already happened. What is the simple past?. To create the simple past, add –ed to most simple present verbs. Verbs: watch, start, live, move, study, stay. Yesterday Kahn __ English for two hours. Mayra __ a video on elephants last night.

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Simple Past Tense

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  1. Simple Past Tense To express what already happened.

  2. What is the simple past? • To create the simple past, add –ed to most simple present verbs. Verbs: watch, start, live, move, study, stay. • Yesterday Kahn __ English for two hours. • Mayra __ a video on elephants last night. • Last year Ana __ in Chicago for a week. • Roberto __ in the library all day yesterday. • Kim __ in China before she __ here. • Jo __ to learn French when he __ in France. • Alan __ to our community at age fifteen.

  3. Why use the simple past? • Use the simple past for activities and situations already started and ended. • Example: Last week, the ISA went camping. • Example: Our class took a quiz yesterday.

  4. What is the past of be? • Were matches you we, and they. • Was is for I and he. • Where __ you last night? • I __ at home! • __ you up or in bed? • I __ up until late. • I __ on the phone to call you many times. • Sorry, I __ not near my cell phone. Is Bob still on a low-cost diet?

  5. Can you pronounce past endings? • After strong consonants, say /d/ • /calld/ /livd/ • After soft consonants, say /t/ • /talkt/ /washt/ • After /t/ and /d/, say /ed/ • /waited/ /needed/ Did the man hear the woman clearly?

  6. Do you use irregular past verbs? • Most irregular verbs change vowels. • Begin/began, come/came, give/gave • Some irregular verbs end in “t.” • Build/built, feel/felt, sweep/swept • A few irregular verbs don’t change. • Cost/cost, fit/fit, let/let Is the past form of ‘understand’ irregular?

  7. Which is the past form? • Sylvia blow/blew the odd guy off. • Alfredo drew/drawn a cool picture. • Minh kept/keep his place in class. • The bank lend/lent Foram $5,000. • The professor tore/tear the paper. • Krupal stood/stand in the back. • The girl wear/wore red lipstick.

  8. Can you fill in the verbs? Verbs: finish, get, put, want, use, forget, find, talk, be, lose, call, do, and remember. • Poor Carmen __ her cell phone inside her own car. • She __ that it __ in her car just the day before. • She __ her friend Abdul to talk about their date. • When she __ speaking, she __ the phone down. • She __ out of the car, leaving the phone in there. • She __ busy in her house and __ think about it. • Then she __ to call someone, and __ it again.

  9. present past begin ___ buy ___ drive ___ fail ___ feel ___ go ___ grow ___ hear ___ present past know ___ leave ___ lose ___ mean ___ pay ___ sell ___ sit ___ think ___ Do you know the past verbs?

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