English — The Past Simple: Regular and Irregular Verbs — BAC Literary Stream

The Past Simple Tense

The Past Simple is used to talk about completed actions in the past. It is essential for narratives and storytelling.

Uses

• Completed actions: I visited Paris last year.
• Past habits: When I was young, I played football every day.
• Sequence of events: He entered the room, sat down, and started reading.
• With time expressions: yesterday, last week, in 2020, two days ago.

Regular Verbs

Add -ed to the base form: work → worked, play → played, study → studied.

Spelling rules: stop → stopped (double consonant), love → loved (just +d), study → studied (y → ied).

Irregular Verbs

Each has its own form: go → went, eat → ate, drink → drank, speak → spoke, write → wrote, buy → bought, catch → caught, teach → taught.

Exercises

1. Put verbs in Past Simple: (He … (go) to London – She … (not/eat) breakfast – … you … (see) the film?).
2. Complete the table: (begin-began-?, break-?-broken, ?-chosen-?).
3. Write a short paragraph about what you did yesterday.

More: Past Simple vs Past Continuous | Conditional Sentences

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