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Unit 6 (Grandpa took this photo)

Simple past tense (lesson 3+4)

The simple past is a verb tense that is used to talk about things that happened before now ( in the past)

Regular verbs, add -ed to the root form of the verb 

Cook→ cooked

Play→played

Dance→ danced

Travel→ travelled

Try→ tried

Irregular verbs

go→went

buy→bought

see→saw

Negative form: (did not + [root form of verb]. ( didn’t instead of did not).

I helped my mum→I didn’t help my mum

We went to the park→We didn’t go to the park.

Question form: (did + subject+ root form of verb.)

Did you help your mum?

Did you go to the park?

Time adverbials:

The simple past tense is commonly used with time expressions referring to the past. Examples are: yesterday, last year, ago, in 2006 etc.