The simple past
by Anthony Montero
1. The Past Tenses - Past Simple - Structure
2. The "simple past" is always used to refer to when something happened, so it is associated with certain time expressions that indicate: frequency: often, sometimes, always I sometimes walked home at lunchtime. I often brought my lunch to school. a specified time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago We saw a good film last week. Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva. She finished her work atseven o'clock I went to the theater last night
3. Afirmativa La forma afirmativa del "simple past" es sencilla. I was in Japan last year She had a headache yesterday. We did our homework last night
4. The past simple, also known as the simple past, is the tense used in the English language to narrate events that occurred at a specific time in the past.
5. simple past structure/verb to be
5.1. + subjet+was/were+complement
5.2. - subjet+wasn`t/weren`t+complement
5.3. ? was/were+subjet+complement
6. To form the past simple with regular verbs, we use the infinitive and add the ending “-ed”. The form is the same for all people (I, you, he, she, it, we, they). Exceptions: ... For verbs that end in an "e", we just add "-d".
