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SIMPLE PASTREGULAR VERBS
TIMELINE
Past Present
Future
2014 2015 2016
USE
The Past Simple expresses a past
action that is now finished.
•We played football yesterday.
•I visited Paris in 2013.
USE
The Past Simple expresses a past
action that is now finished.
•We played football yesterday.
•I visited Paris in 2013.
SPELLING
•Add ‘ed’ to the verb:
•Start → started
•Finish → finished
•Verbs ending with ‘e’, add just ‘d’
•Arrive → arrived
•Survive → Survived
•Put the following verbs in the simple past:
Add either ‘d’ or ‘ed’.
•Accept → Accept
•Add → Add
•Admire → Admire
•Advise → Advise
•Afford → Afford
•Agree → Agree
•Put the following verbs in the simple past:
•Accept → Accepted
•Add → Added
•Admire → Admired
•Advise → Advised
•Afford → Afforded
•Agree → Agreed
•Verb ends in ‘y’, change ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add ‘ed’
•Cry → cried
•Study → studied•One vowel verb, double the consonant
•Stop → stopped
•Beg → begged
•Put the following verbs in the simple past:
Grab →
Employ →
Plan →
Empty →
Copy →
Dry →
•Put the following verbs in the simple past:
Grab → Grabbed
Employ → Employed
Plan → Planned
Empty → Emptied
Copy → Copied
Dry → Dried
•Put the following verbs in the simple past:
Examine Examined
Travel
Rescue
Investigate
Deliver
Seat
Construct
Listen
FORM
Affirmative
I
finishedyesterday
He/She/It
We
You
They
Negative
I
He/She/I
t
We
You
They
didn’t
(did not) arrive
yesterday.
FORM• Question
• The question in the Past Simple is formed with did.
I
arrive?
When did He/she/it
We
You
They