English – Grammar: Simple Past (Regular and Irregular Verbs) – 1st Year Middle School – Algeria

The Simple Past Tense

The simple past tense is used to describe completed actions in the past.

Formation of Regular Verbs

Add -ed to the base form of the verb.

• walk → walked
• play → played
• study → studied (y→i)
• stop → stopped (double consonant)

Irregular Verbs

Base	Past	Base	Past
go	went	have	had
see	saw	do	did
eat	ate	make	made
buy	bought	take	took
read	read	write	wrote

Negative Form

Subject + did not (didn’t) + base verb: I did not go to school yesterday.

Question Form

Did + subject + base verb: Did you see the film?

Exercices

1. Write the past: go → ____, buy → ____, play → ____, study → ____.
2. Complete: Yesterday, I ____ (visit) my grandmother. She ____ (make) a cake.

Learn more: Past Simple vs Past Continuous and Simple Past: Regular and Irregular.

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