The Past Simple
Revision of the different past tenses (Past simple/past continuous/present perfect)
We use the past simple tense to talk about an action or a situation, an event in the past.
The event can be short or long action.
Here are some past simple time markers that help us to understand when things have happened:
The event can be short or long action.
Here are some past simple time markers that help us to understand when things have happened:
- yesterday
- Last (week, time, year, day, holiday, season, month…)
- duration + ago e.g two weeks ago.
- In the past
- date in the past e: in 1978
- When I was…
Yesterday, I saw a nice film on TV.
She went to the doctor two days ago.
Subject + verb (regular/irregular) + …
Three years ago, I visited London with my friends.
Children took photos at the zoo yesterday.
To form the interrogative form past simple:
We need to use auxiliary “did”.
When we use the auxiliary we put the verb in the base form.
Did + subject + verb (base form)…+?
Did you study at university last year?
Did → I - you - she - he - it - we - they
To form the negative form past simple.
We need auxiliary did + not = did not or didn’t + verb (base form)
Subject + did not + verb (base form) …