Past |
simple |
1. How to make the past simple ?
With most verbs, the past simple is created by adding -ED.
Verb
ending in...
How
to make the simple past
Examples
e
Add -D
live => lived
date => dated
Consonant
+y
Change y to i,
then add -ED
try => tried
cry => cried
One consonant + one
vowel + one consonant
(but NOT w or y)Double
the consonant, then add -ED
Listen and hapen are exceptions to this rule.
tap => tapped
commit => committed
anything
else including w
Add -ED
boil => boiled
fill => filled
hand => handed
show => showed
c
Add -KED
panic => panicked
2. when we use past simple ?
1
Finished
events in the past with no connection to the present:
Leonardo painted the
Mona Lisa.
The Vikings invaded Britain.
2
With
a finished time word (yesterday, last week, at 2 o'clock, in 2003):
I went to
the cinema yesterday.
We visited Japan
in 2007.
3
For
habit in the past
I collected
stamps when I was a child.
4
For
stories / lists of events:
He went to
a café, sat down
and lit a
cigarette.
Yesterday I went to
the library, met a
friend for lunch, and played
tennis.