Past Simple Tense
We use Past Simple Tense` to talk about something that happened in the past and finished in the past.
The forms of Simple Past Tense:
1.1 Affirmative Sentences:
We normally add ed to the end of the regular verb for making affirmative sentence. The most common time expressions used for the tense are: yesterday, last month, ago.
Subject + 2nd form of a verb + object
We went to china for our holidays last month.
I went to school very late yesterday.
She washed her dress yesterday.
He played the piano.
1.2 Negative Sentences:
We use did not to make negative sentence in past simple.
Subject + did not + 1st form of a verb + object
He did not talk to Sam yesterday.
She did not eat cake last night.
Mary did not sleep yesterday.
They did not play the game last week.
Note: We use 2nd form of verb only in positive sentence not in negative and interrogative sentence. In negative and interrogative, we use first form of the verb as a main verb.
1.3 Interrogative or Question Sentence:
We use did to make a question sentence in the past tense. This is for regular and irregular not for to be or modal verb.
Did + Subject + 1st form of a verb + object
Did he live in China?
Did you eat chocolate?
Did they arrive on time?
See also...
Past Tense Worksheets:
- Past Tense Worksheet 10
- Past Tense Worksheet 11
- Past Tense Worksheet 12
- Past Continuous Tense Worksheet 13
- Past Continuous Tense Worksheet 14
- Past Continuous Tense Worksheet 15
- Past Perfect Tense Worksheet 16