Grammar Unit Past simple

Past simple: be

• We use it to talk about actions and events in the past.
• Past simple of be is was/wasn´t or were/ weren´t

          Ex: I was in town yesterday

                We were at a friend´s house last nite

                My sister wasn´t with me.

                We watched some videos but they weren´t very good.

• Questions: we put the verb before the subject:

          Ex: Were you in the park yesterday? No, I wasn´t

                Was James with you? Yes, he was

Past Simple: Regular Verbs

• Regular verbs have an –ed ending. The form is the same for all subjects (I,you,he,she,it, we,you, they)

          Ex: I walked to the park

               Carla opened the window

• If a verb ends in –e, we only add –d.

          Like – liked

          Hate – hated

• If a verb ends with consonant + y, we change the y to i and add –ed.

          Study – studied

          Try – tried

          Marry – married

• If a short verb ends in 1 vowel + 1 consonant, we double the final consonant before adding –ed.

          Stop – stopped

          Travel – travelled

• Negative: we use didn´t + base form of the verb. The form is the same for all subjects.

          I didn´t like the film last night

          He didn´t study very hard.