Simple Past Tense
📘 Simple Past Tense
The Simple Past Tense is used to describe:
- Completed actions in the past 🕰️
- Events that happened at a specific time in the past 📅
- Short or long actions that are finished ✔️
✅ Positive Sentences
Formula:
Subject + past form of verb
| Subject | Verb (Past Form) | Example |
|---|---|---|
| I / You / He / She / It / We / They | walked / ate / went | She visited her grandma. |
🔹 Regular verbs: add -ed → walk → walked
🔹 Irregular verbs: change form → go → went, eat → ate
❌ Negative Sentences
Formula:
Subject + did not (didn’t) + base verb
| Subject | Auxiliary | Base Verb | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| I / You / He / She / It / We / They | didn’t | play | I didn’t play yesterday. |
✅ Use the base form of the verb after “didn’t” (not past form!)
❔ Questions
Formula:
Did + subject + base verb?
| Did | Subject | Base Verb | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Did | you / she / they | go | Did she go to school? |
⏱️ Common Time Expressions
- Yesterday
- Last night / week / year
- Two days ago
- In 2005
- When I was a child
🔸 Example:
- We went to Paris last summer.
- He didn’t call me yesterday.
✍️ Example Sentences
- I watched a movie last night.
- She studied French at university.
- They didn’t come to the party.
- Did you see that?
- What did he say?