Unit 6 (Grandpa took this photo)
Simple past tense (
The simple past is a verb tense that is used to talk about things that happened before now ( in the past)
Regular verbs,
clean→ cleaned
Irregular verbs
go→went
Negative form: (did not + [root form of verb]. ( didn’t instead of did not).
We didn't shout
he didn't go to the zoo
Question form: (did + subject+ root form of verb.)
Did you phone your friend?
Did you sleep early?
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.