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Past Simple: Regular and Irregular Verbs

The Past Simple is used for completed actions in the past. It’s one of the most common tenses in English.

1. Regular verbs: base verb + ed

work → worked, play → played, clean → cleaned, talk → talked, call → called.

2. Spelling rules for regular verbs

– Verbs ending in -e: add -d (like → liked, dance → danced).
– Verbs ending in consonant + y: change y to i + ed (study → studied, try → tried).
– Short verbs (CVC): double last consonant (stop → stopped, plan → planned).

3. Irregular verbs (common list)

Base	Past	Base	Past
go	went	see	saw
have	had	eat	ate
do	did	drink	drank
say	said	write	wrote
make	made	read	read
get	got	swim	swam
take	took	buy	bought
come	came	teach	taught

4. Negative and questions

Negative: Subject + didn’t + base verb: I didn’t go to school yesterday.

Question: Did + subject + base verb: Did you see the film? Did he finish his homework?

5. Exercises

Exercise 1: I _____ (visit) my friend yesterday. She _____ (go) to the cinema last night. They _____ (not/play) tennis on Saturday.

Exercise 2: Write about what you did yesterday (5-6 sentences).

See also: Conditional Sentences.

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