Transcript Simple Past Tense

Simple Past Tense
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We use the simple past tense to
talk about what happened at a
definite time in the past.
There are some common expressions we use:
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yesterday,
last night,
a month ago,
last week,
yesterday afternoon, etc
Regular Verbs (規則動詞)
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Most verbs ( + ed)
walk→walked
play →played
• Verbs ending in e (+d)
live →lived
use →used
• Verbs ending in a consonant (輔音) + y
(-y + ied)
(consonant: p, t, r, etc)
cry →cried
carry →carried
• Short verbs ending in a vowel (元音) + a
consonant
(vowel: a, e, i, o, u)
(double the consonant + y)
stop →stopped
shop →shopped
Irregular Verbs (不規則動詞)
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No change
cost →cost
put →put
 Change the vowel (元音) or the
consonant (輔音)
come →came ring →rang
make →made sit →sat
 Change the whole word
buy →bought do →did
Negative Sentences
(否定句)
We add “did not” before the main verb to
form negative sentence. (did not = didn’t)
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I did not see Sandy this morning.
John did not go to church last Sunday.
David did not watch TV last night.
Questions
We add “Did” before the subject (主語)
and put a “ ? ” at the end to form question.
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Did you have breakfast this morning?
 Did you wash the dishes last night?
 Did you bring the umbrella?
The Verb “to be”
Statements:
 “I / He / She / It” was very good.
 “You / We / They” were very smart.
Questions:
 Was “I / he / she / it” very good?
 Were “you / we / they” very smart?
Negative sentences:
 “I / He / She / It” was not very good.
 “You / We / They” were not very smart.
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