SIMPLE PAST
by Gerardo Salazar and Valery Moreno, UAM English assignment. 

DEFINITION OF THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE

The simple past tense, sometimes called the preterite, is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. The simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important.

PATTERNS OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE FOR REGULAR VERBS

PATTERNS OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE FOR IRREGULAR VERBS

 Other Examples Of Regular and Irregular Verbs

Questions in the Past Tense

• We use did to make a question in the past tense.
• This is for regular "and" irregular verbs in English. 

Example: Did you cook dinner yesterday?.

                Did you go to school last week?

NOTICE: The only difference between a question in the present tense and a question in the past tense is the change in the auxiliary verb.
Both Do and Does in present tense questions become Didn't in past tense questions.

Practice

Fill the blanks with the correct verb in past tense.

1. My mom _______ (go) shopping yesterday.
2. I _______ (take) a test two hours ago.
3. Ricardo _________ (wake up) late this morning.
4. I _____ (see) some nice cars last week.
5. My dad ______ (cook) some meat.
6. Allan ______ (watch) a documentary last monday.
7. She ______ (text) her friend everyday last summer.
8. We ______ (start) to take English classes last year.
9. Did you ______ (finish) the book last night?
10. Did you _____ (work) on the unit 1 last class?
11. Did you______(talk) with the teacher about the project?
12. Did you______(give) the homework related to recycling?


Fill the boxes with the missing verbs in both columns.

Present tense	Past Tense
Read
	Ate
Use
	Looked
Make
	Did

Congrats :)

Here is some extra practice on the links below

*https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-exercise-8.html
*https://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/tense-comparison/past-tenses/exercises
*https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises
*https://www.english-4u.de/en/grammar/past-simple.htm
*https://agendaweb.org/verbs/past_simple-exercises.html


References

http://simplepastgrammarverbs.blogspot.com/2015/
https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/simple-past-tense/
https://www.easypacelearning.com/all-lessons/grammar/585-irregular-verbs-small-list-learning-basic-english
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http://simplepastgrammarverbs.blogspot.com/2015/