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    The past simple tense is used to talk about actions that were completed in the past. It is formed using regular verbs with "-ed" and irregular verbs with their own past forms. Common time expressions used with the past simple include "yesterday", "last week/year", and "when I was a child". The past simple is used in affirmative sentences with subject + verb + complement. Negative sentences use "didn't" before the infinitive verb and questions use "did" before the subject.

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    The past simple tense is used to talk about actions that were completed in the past. It is formed using regular verbs with "-ed" and irregular verbs with their own past forms. Common time expressions used with the past simple include "yesterday", "last week/year", and "when I was a child". The past simple is used in affirmative sentences with subject + verb + complement. Negative sentences use "didn't" before the infinitive verb and questions use "did" before the subject.

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    The past simple tense is used to talk about actions that were completed in the past. It is formed using regular verbs with "-ed" and irregular verbs with their own past forms. Common time expressions used with the past simple include "yesterday", "last week/year", and "when I was a child". The past simple is used in affirmative sentences with subject + verb + complement. Negative sentences use "didn't" before the infinitive verb and questions use "did" before the subject.

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    PAST SIMPLE

    When do we use the past simple?


    USE: we use the past simple to express an action that started and finished
    at a specific time in the past.
    They arrived home at eleven oclock last night
    We visited our aunt yesterday
    We often use the past simple with time expressions such as these:

    yesterday
    three weeks ago
    last year/week/ night
    in 2002
    in summer/last summer
    when I was a child

    FORM:
    Affirmative: Subject + verb: regular verb ED
    complements

    - irregular verb (table of irregular verbs)


    In English we distinguish between regular and irregular verbs.
    Regular verbs add ED to the infinive form of the verb. We use the same
    form for all persons.
    I, you, he, she ,it, we, they washed the car yesterday
    I stayed at a hotel but my friends stayed at a hostel.
    Irregular verbs take a different form, so we have to memorize them. (2
    column of irregular verbs list) drink-drank, see-saw, speak-spoke
    I bought a new computer last week
    We saw a movie last night
    SPELLING RULES ED
    1. Most of verbs add ed: work want
    2. When the verb ends in e, we add d: liked hated
    3. One syllable verbs ending in consonant+vowel+consonant, double the
    final consonant: stopped planned

    4. Verbs ending in consonant+y, change the y to ied: studied carried


    BUT played
    Negative: Subject + didnt + verb infinitive + complements
    In negative sentences we use the auxiliary form didnt before the infinitive
    verb.
    We didnt go to the swimming pool last Monday
    Sara didnt visit London last summer
    Interrogative: Did + subject + infinitive verb + complements?
    In questions we use the auxiliary form Did before the subject.
    Did she get up at seven yesterday morning? Yes, she did
    No. she didnt

    Whats the meaning of rain, fire, try?


    They have the same form when they function as a verb and when they
    function as a noun.
    In English there are lots of words that may function as a noun or as a verb.
    How do we distinguish their function? By means of the context.
    It has started to rain / Get out of rain! /The rain is falling hard
    When they have 2 or more syllables we can distinguish them by means of
    the stress.

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