GRAMMAR Past simple: Positive (A2 Basic)
Past simple
We use the past simple to describe completed actions in the past.
We often use past time expressions with the past simple, e.g. yesterday, last week, when I was a child.
I arrived home yesterday.
I bought a new car last month.
I often visited my grandparents when I was a child.
I sometimes went to the theatre when I lived in Mexico City.
I liked sweets a lot when I was at primary school.
I had a lot of friends at university.
Regular and irregular verbs
Past simple verbs are the same for all persons: I / you / we / they / he / she / it.
I worked. She worked. They worked.
You went. He went. We went.
Some verbs are regular. We add -ed to make the past simple:
work ➔ worked
help ➔ helped
Some verbs are irregular and you will need to learn their past forms:
meet ➔ met
buy ➔ bought
| most verbs ➔ add -ed | start ➔ started watch ➔ watched |
| verb ends in -e ➔ add -d | live ➔ lived die ➔ died |
| verb ends in consonant + -y ➔ change -y to -i then add -ed | try ➔ tried cry ➔ cried |
| verb ends in one vowel (a, e, i, o, u) and one consonant (g, n, t, etc.) ➔ double the consonant and add -ed | stop ➔ stopped plan ➔ planned |
| never double the consonants w, x or y ➔ add -ed only | show ➔ showed play ➔ played |
Practice
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