TENSES → PAST SIMPLE · RULE 02
Past Simple
An action that started and finished in the past. We know when it happened: yesterday, last week, in 2019.
FORMULA
V2 / -ed
YESTERDAY
✕
she walked
NOW
the action is over
THE THREE FORMS
+
She walked to work.
subject + V2
−
She didn't walk to work.
didn't + V1 (base!)
?
Did she walk to work?
Did + subject + V1
Only one word shows the past: did. So the main verb stays simple: walk, go, see.
SPELLING -ED
most verbs → +edwalk → walked
ends in -e → +dlive → lived
consonant + y → -iedstudy → studied
short vowel + consonant → doublestop → stopped
IRREGULARS — LEARN THE TOP 10
be → was/were
go → went
have → had
do → did
say → said
get → got
make → made
see → saw
take → took
come → came
SIGNAL WORDSyesterdaylast nightlast weekin 2019two days agowhen I was ten
COMMON MISTAKES