Rules of Simple Past #English #Tenses
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| Ielts English Grammar - Simple Past |
Simple Past Rules
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Simple Past is used for actions completed
in the past.
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Signal words for the Simple Past are:
o Yesterday
o Last week- Last year
o A month ago
o In 2000
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‘ed’ is
appended to the infinitive of regular verbs
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If the regular verbs ends in -e, I only add d to the infinitive.
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In case of the irregular verbs, form mentioned
in the 2nd column of the table of the
irregular verbs is used.
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Simple present
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Simple past
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Past participle
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Present
participle
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Do
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Did
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Done
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Doing
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Bring
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Brought
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Brought
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Bringing
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Swim
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Swam
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Swum
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swimming
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To make negative sentences did + not + infinitive of the verb is used.
o I did
not call my friends.
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The contracted form for did + not is didn't .
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For object questions, did + infinitive of the verb is used.
o Did
you call your friends yesterday?
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For subject questions, verb is used to form in the Simple Past.
o Who
called you yesterday?
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The verb be has two forms in the Simple Past,
was were.
o I was
o You were
o he,
she, it was
o we,
you, they were
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