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The Past Simple

Revision of the different past tenses (Past simple/past continuous/present perfect)

I Past simple:
Past simple:

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.

Affirmative form:

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

Negative form:

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) …


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لتتمكن من الوصول إلى جميع الدروس والتمارين والمسابقات والفيديوهات وتصفح الموقع براحة قم بالدخول أو بتسجيل حساب مجانا.