| THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE |
| Study the passages below and observe the changes in verb forms |
| What do you do every day? (Simple Present Tense) In the morning: I get up at 7 o’clock. I wash my face and have breakfast. I brush my teeth and comb my hair. I get dressed. I leave home at 8 o’clock. We start school at 8: 30. chool. In the afternoon: I have lunch at 12: 30. We start the fifth lesson at 01: 30. We finish school at 3 o’clock. I go home and get changed. In the evening: I do homework and study my lessons. I watch TV. We have dinner at 6:30. At night: I read a book for half an hour. I brush my teeth and go to bed. |
| What did you do yesterday? (Simple Past Tense) Yesterday morning: I got up at 7 o’clock. I washed my face and had breakfast. I brushed my teeth and combed my hair. I got dressed. I left home at 8 o’clock. We started school at 8: 30. Yesterday afternoon: I had lunch at 12:30. We started the fifth lesson at 01: 30. We finished school at 3 o’clock. I went home and got changed. Yesterday evening: I did my homework and studied my lessons. I watched TV. We had dinner at 6:30. Last night: I read a book for half an hour. I brushed my teeth and went to bed. |
| Regular verbs Present: wash brush comb start study finish watch Past: washed brushed combed started studied finished watched |
| Irregular verbs Present: get have leave go do read Past: got had left went did read (red) |
| PAST FORM OF REGULAR VERBS |
| Spelling of –ed a) verbs that end in –e takes –d like – liked, live – lived, hope – hoped, date – dated, injure – injured b) Verbs that end in a vowel and a consonant takes –ed but the consonant is doubled. Stop – stopped, rob – robbed, beg – begged Play – played, snow – snowed Rain – rained, dream – dreamed, listen – listened, offer – offered, open – opened *prefer – preferred, control – controlled, travel – travelled c) Verbs that end in two consonant takes – ed Start – started, watch – watched, ask – asked, add- added – demand- demanded d) Verbs that end in a consonant and –y take –ed but –y changes to –i Study – studied, try – tried, cry – cried, fry – fried, reply – replied (See the spelling and pronounciation of –ed) |
| Past sentences with regular verbs |
| (present) I play football everyday. You help your mother at weekends. He enjoys parties. She usually listens to the radio news. It rains a lot in Rize We often visit our aunt. You always travel by bus. They sometimes climb mountains. |
| (past) I played football yesterday. You helped your mother last weekend. He enjoyed the party last night She listened to the radio news this morning. It rained a lot in Rize last week. We visited our aunt yesterday afternoon. You travelled to Ankara by bus last Friday. They climbed Mount Erciyes last month. |
| Past sentences with irregular verbs (see the list of irregular verbs: the second form of the verb is the past form) |
| Present Simple I usually get up at nine o’clock on Saturdays. I go to school at eight. They do their homework everyday. We run around the park at weekends. I buy a book once a month. My father gives me five dollars every day. She reads a book at nights. I make myself sandwiches for lunch. You write a letter to your parents every week. I meet my friends on Fridays. She usually has tea at breakfast. Mr Donald drives to work. We ride a horse in Summer. |
| Past Simple I got up at nine last Saturday. I went to school at half past eight. They did their homework yesterday. We ran for an hour yesterday. I bought a book last month . He gave me five dollars yesterday. She read a book last night. I made myself a sandwich for lunch today. You wrote a letter to your parents last week. I met my friends on Thursday last week. She had orange juice at breakfast this morninig. He drove to work this morning. We rode a horse last Summer. |
| NEGATIVE FORM Subject + did not (didn’t) + verb 1 |
| Positive form I watched You cleaned He played She did It went We had They got |
| Negative form I didn’t watch You didn’t clean He didn’t play She didn’t do It didn’t go We didn’t have They didn’t get |
| Example sentences in the positive and negative forms: I studied Maths yesterday but I didn’t study Science. We went to the bank but we didn’t go to the shop. They worked on Monday but they didn’t work on Tuesday. Meral did her English homework but she didn’t do her Turkish homework. It snowed in Erzurum yesterday but it didn’t snow in Kastamonu. Pamela came to the party last night but Emma didn’t come. I mended Ali’s bike but I didn’t mend Hasan’s bike. Kate bought her son a toycar but she didn’t buy her daughter anything. |
| QUESTION FORM Yes/No Questions: Did + Subject + verb1...? / Wh- Questions: Question Word + did + Subject + verb1...? |
| Did did did did did did |
What How Where When Why |
| your friend you the accident she they Paul |
| visit do happen go paint leave |
| you yesterday? last night? ? for her holiday? the house? school? |
| Note: If you ask about the doer of the action (subject), don’t use the auxiliary verb “did”. In this case, the verb is in the past form. Who broke the window? What happened? Who made the cake? What made you so angry? Who went to the shop? What caused the accident? |
| SHORT ANSWERS Yes, I/we/you/they/he/she/it did. No, I/we/you/they/he/she/it didn’t. |
| Did you go to the cinema yesterday? No, I didn’t. Did it snow on Sunday? Yes, it did. Did they win the match? No, they didn’t. Did Mary leave home early? Yes, she did. Who broke the window? Tom did. Who made the cake? My mother did. |