SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Introduction

The simple past expresses an action in the past taking place once, never, several times. It can also be used for actions taking place one after another or in the middle of another action.

Task

Write sentences in simple past.

Janet / the bus / miss
she / her room / tidy
not / Rupert / the number / dial
she / a friend / phone
not / Andy / the ball / pass

Process

Exceptions in Spelling when Adding ‘ed’

Exceptions in spelling when adding ed	Example
after a final e only add d	love – loved
final consonant after a short, stressed vowel or l as final consonant after a vowel is doubled	admit – admitted travel – travelled
final y after a consonant becomes i	hurry – hurried

Evaluation

The PAST TENSE indicates that an action is in the past relative to the speaker or writer.The simple past tense is used to talk about finished actions that happened at a specific time in the past. You state when it happened using a time adverb.

Conclusion

Simple past

The simple past or past simple, sometimes called the preterite, is the basic form of the past tense in Modern English. It is used principally to describe events in the past, although it also has some other uses. Regular English verbs form the simple past in -ed; however there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms.

The term "simple" is used to distinguish the syntactical construction whose basic form uses the plain past tense alone, from other past tense constructions which use auxiliaries in combination with participles, such as the past perfect and past progressive.

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