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PAST SIMPLE

PAST SIMPLE. We use the Past Simple to talk about: Finished actions in the past : She climbed the stairs and went to her room. I saw an accident yesterday. 2. Past situations that were repeated or continued, and past habits: The weather was horrible yesterday.

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PAST SIMPLE

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  1. PAST SIMPLE

  2. We use the Past Simple to talk about: • Finished actions in the past : She climbed the stairs and went to her room. I saw an accident yesterday.

  3. 2. Past situations that were repeated or continued, and past habits: The weather was horrible yesterday. I went to primary school in England.

  4. Form: Regular verbs We add ending – ed /d/ /t/ /id/ smiled cooked wanted opened escaped landed pulled laughed needed

  5. Irregular verbs: / Mini dictionary/ Latviski infinitive past Salauzt break broke Pirkt buy bought Nākt come came Griezt cut cut Braukt drive drove

  6. Latviski infinitive past Ēst eat ate Krist fall fell Atrast find found Sist hit hit Turēt hold held Dot give gave Uzaugt grow up grew up Doties go went Dzirdēt hear heard Turēt keep kept

  7. Latviski infinitive past Gatavot make made Satikt meet met Maksāt pay paid Likt put put Sūtīt send sent Sēdēt sit sat Domāt think thought Uzvarēt win won Rakstīt write wrote

  8. In questions and negative sentences, we use the infinitive and Did or didn’t Did you see the match last night? Yes, I did/ No, I didn’t. We didn’t like the play, it was too slow. Where did she get this beautiful dress?

  9. We can use the following time adverbials with the past simple: yesterday last month last week last Monday two days ago three years ago in 1999

  10. Their position in a sentence can be at the beginnning or end: Last week I bought a new bike. My parents got married twenty years ago.

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