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Past simple - Form and use

Exercise 1

Choose the correct past simple forms to complete the sentences below.

Past simple - Form

Spelling of regular verbs

Past simple - Use

Completed actions in the past

We use the past simple to talk about actions or events that happened in the past. We know or we say when the events happened.

I saw Jim yesterday.

We didn't go out last Saturday. We stayed at home.

She moved to Chester three years ago.

Past habits

We use the past simple to talk about past habits (things that we did more or less often).

She washed her hair every day.

She worked as a nurse.

I often played in the park when we were children.

Situations that were true in the past

We also use the past simple to talk about things that were true in the past.

My grandfather had two brothers.

He lived with my grandparents as a child.

Events in chronological order

We use the past simple to describe the main events of a story in chronological order.

When I arrived home, I took off my shoes and then I relaxed on the sofa

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Past simple – Form and use - Test-English

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Past simple form and use. We use the past simple to talk about completed actions in the past, past habits, things that were true in the past, and to narrate past events in chronological order. English grammar and exercises.

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Negative
Answer (Short-Long)

Did you cook last night?
No. I didn't
No. I did not cook last night.

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Question
Did you cook last night?

Answer (Short-Long)
Afirmative
Yes, I did.
Yes, I cooked a cake last night in my house.

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Also we have to use an Auxiliar in orden to anderstand how is the structure.  

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Also we have to use an Auxiliar in orden to anderstand how is the structure.  

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REGULAR

If the verb ends in vowel, we add (D). e.g
Smiled
Baked
Hoped
Hated

If the verb ends in consonat, we add (ED)
e.g
Worked
Played
Lived
Enjoyed

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We have to change its orthographic structure.
e,g

Go - Went
Give - Gave
Come - Came
Buy - Bought

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Let's watch this video about regular and irregular verbs and listen to the differences between them. 

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Let's watch this video about regular and irregular verbs and listen to the differences between them. 

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Eurocentres - regular vs irregular verbs

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Now, we have to talk about the verbs that we use in this time.

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Now, we have to talk about the verbs that we use in this time.

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Is used to talk about a completed action or actions  in a time before now.
Let's see the time line.......