🕰️ It answers the question: What happened?

Examples:

• I visited my cousin last weekend.

• They played soccer yesterday.

• She didn’t go to school on Monday.

• Finished actions in the past:
  ➤ I studied for the test last night.

• A sequence of past events:
  ➤ He got up, brushed his teeth, and left the house.

• Past habits (with expressions like always, often, never):
  ➤ We always walked to school when we were kids.

🔹 Regular verbs → Add -ed

Base Verb Past Simple play played talk talked wash washed

🔸 Irregular verbs → Change form completely

Base Verb Past Simple go went have had see saw

📝 Examples:

• He played video games.

• I went to the museum.

📝 Examples:

• She didn’t eat breakfast.

• They did not watch the movie.

🚫 Note: Use the base verb after “didn’t” (not the past form).

📝 Examples:

• Did you study for the test?

• Did they travel last year?

🎯 Don’t use -ed or irregular past after "did" – always use the base verb!

• walk → walked

• jump → jumped

✏️ If verb ends in -e, just add -d

• love → loved

• dance → danced

✏️ Consonant + y → change “y” to “i” and add -ed

• study → studied

• cry → cried

✏️ CVC pattern (consonant-vowel-consonant) → double the last consonant

• stop → stopped

• plan → planned

We watched a movie yesterday.

I had breakfast at 7 a.m.

🔸 Negative:

She didn’t go to the party.

I did not see him at school.

❓ Questions:

Did you finish your homework?

Did he call you?