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Today we are going to talk about the past simple tense.
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we use the past simple when we talk about an action which happened at a definite time in the past.
Now this tense emphasizes that the action is finished.
Note that we can also use this tense to talk about how someone felt about something.
Let's have a look at the dialogue over here.
When was your wedding.
It was three years ago.
I was beyond happy to marry the love of my life.
Now in this sentence.
When was your wedding.
The past simple is used to ask a question about a past event.
And in the sentence it was three years ago.
It is used to describe exactly when this event took place and in this sentence I was beyond happy to
marry the love of my life.
The path simple is used to talk about how that person felt
and with infinitives all we have to do is add EDI to create the past simple tense.
Have a look at the examples we know he worked part time as a waiter we liked our stay at the hotel.
Note that all persons have the same form now when a word ends for the continent.
Plus why we keep the continent and turn the Y into i e d when we want to create the past simple.
Have a look at the following words Fry cried try tried and when a word ends with a vowel and a consonant
we keep the vowel double the constant and add E D as in the example below.
Stop stop.
Regret regretted
and make sure to use the past tense form of the irregular verbs to make sentences in the past simple.
For example B turns into was or were eats eight drink drink.
Now the past tense form of the verb be depends on the person of the subject.
Have a look at the tables.
B No
I was we were you were you were he she or it was.
They were.
Now let's have a look at the use of.
Did or did not plus fur.
Now let's start off with a positive sentence his sister lived in southern London the negative form of
the sentence would be his sister did not live in Sandton.
She lived in Harrow.
The question form of this sentence would be did his sister live in Sutton
bear.
Did his sister live in London.
Note that we can use yesterday last night not a long time ago two years ago etc to create the past simple
tense.
Have a look at the examples below take Speer died in sixteen sixteen Ryan did not go to work yesterday
he got sick.
When did you move to Spain a month there.
Not a long time ago
note that we used.
Did or did not with the verb to have a look at the sentence.
No it didn't have enough money to buy a new computer note how we used didn't the verb have but we do
not use did with the verb to be buzz or verb other we use it as follow why were you so angry it wasn't
angry.
This was my usual self.