Past Simple - (Simple Past Tense)
Simple Past tense is used to describe actions that happened at an
earlier time and have already completed, for example:
She Cleaned
her house. She cleaned his house.
I broke the
window. I broke the window
Both the negative interrogative form as is used as
auxiliary DID is the past form of the verb "TO DO" and accompanies
the main verb in its infinitive form. Negations can be used in the contracted
form of DID NOT or DID. In the top box uses the verb To Play (Play) as an
example.
Expressing a sentence in Past Simple means that the
action is unrelated to the present, as shown in the following cases:
I
lost the keys. He lost the keys.
(Perhaps
in this the've found).
She lent me a book. She lent me a book.
(You might already have returned it).
It is
also possible to indicate the time when the action is to indicate the time more
accurately:
They saw the movie last night. They
saw the movie last night.
We went to London yesterday. We
went to London yesterday.
In order to form a sentence in past
tense we must distinguish two types: regular verbs and irregular verbs.
In
the first case are the Simple Past ED adding the ending to the infinitive, while
the irregulars are so called not to follow a particular pattern and in this
case must be studied individually.
