CAN THE PAST BE SIMPLE?

Well, the Simple Past was already mentioned before HERE. However, I believe it deserves its own entry in this blog. So, here you are:

We use the Simple Past to talk about actions that happened in a specific moment in the past.

e.g. I worked yesterday.
When? Yesterday.

Observe the paragraph below:


All the verbs in the paragraph above are in their simple past forms.

Some verbs undergo a simple transformation: we only add ed to the end. These are regular verbs:

We travelled to our countryhouse [on Sunday].

travelled - travel

.Some verbs change completely. These are irregular verbs:

We went to the club [on Saturday].

went - go

You can find a list of irregular verbs HERE.

However, in the negative and in the interrogative form, the verbs do not change. We use did instead of do.

Negative:

Present: I don't work on weekends.
Past: I didn't work last weekend.

Interrogative:

Present: Do you study English every day?
Past: Did you study English yesterday?

Are you ready to do some practice? Try it HERE and HERE.

See you soon!
J.