English — The Past Simple: Regular and Irregular Verbs — 2nd Year Middle School — Algerian Curriculum

The Past Simple: Regular and Irregular Verbs

The past simple is used to talk about completed actions in the past.

1. Regular Verbs

Add -ed to the base verb.

• play → played, walk → walked, watch → watched
• Verbs ending in -e: add -d: like → liked, dance → danced
• Verbs ending in consonant + y: -y → -ied: study → studied, cry → cried
• One syllable CVC: double last consonant: stop → stopped, plan → planned

2. Irregular Verbs

These verbs change completely. You need to memorize them.

Base	Past	Base	Past
go	went	see	saw
have	had	eat	ate
come	came	take	took
do	did	write	wrote
say	said	read	read
get	got	make	made
be	was/were	buy	bought

Negative form

Subject + didn’t + base verb: “I didn’t play football.” “She didn’t go to school.”

Question form

Did + subject + base verb? “Did you see the film?” “Did he come to the party?”

Exercises

1) Write the past form: play → …, study → …, go → …, stop → …, eat → …
2) Complete: Yesterday, I … (visit) my grandmother. She … (make) a cake. We … (have) a good time.

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