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This document provides instruction on using the simple past tense in English. It discusses time signals used with the simple past, common regular and irregular verb forms, and how to form positive, negative and interrogative sentences. It also covers informative questions using question words, and distinguishes between verbal and nominal sentences. The key aspects of using the simple past tense covered are time frames, common verbs and their past forms, and sentence structure types.

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Simple Past Tense Presentation

This document provides instruction on using the simple past tense in English. It discusses time signals used with the simple past, common regular and irregular verb forms, and how to form positive, negative and interrogative sentences. It also covers informative questions using question words, and distinguishes between verbal and nominal sentences. The key aspects of using the simple past tense covered are time frames, common verbs and their past forms, and sentence structure types.

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Tell what you know!

Main characters
Problems
Ending

How to say the problems?

Use the

The Simple Past

Function:
to tell things happened in the

PAST

Time Signals

yesterday
last
Last night
Last week
Last month
Last year
Last Monday
Last April

Time Signals (cont.)

ago
Two minutes ago
Three hours ago
Five weeks ago
Ten months ago
Eleven years ago

this morning

Verbs (action words)

3 verbs:
Verb

1 (original)

Verb

Verb

Examples of verbs

EAT
V1

: eat

V2

: ate

V3

: eaten

the change
has NO
rules

WALK

V1

: walk

V2

: walked

V3

: walked

the change
has a rule
( V +ed )

Examples

S + V2

My family ate dinner at Glory


Restaurant two days ago.

I walked on Borobudur Temple


last holiday.

Pattern

S + V2

Some examples of regular verbs


V1

V2

V3

look

looked

looked

work

worked

worked

kill

killed

killed

walk

walked

walked

brush

brushed

brushed

Some examples of irregular verbs


V1

V2

V3

run

ran

run

see

saw

seen

give

gave

given

take

took

taken

eat

ate

eaten

3 Sentences Types
Positive sentence ( + )
Negative sentence ( - )
Interrogative sentence ( ? )
In ( - ) & (?) sentence:

DID + V1

Negative Sentence
+ NOT.
( + ) I ate eggs yesterday.
( - ) I not ate eggs yesterday.

NOT
Give before NOT

DID + V1
So, (

+ ) I ate eggs yesterday.

( - ) I did not eat eggs yesterday.

Interrogative Sentence
In English, the structure is
REVERSED!!!
(+) I ate eggs yesterday.
(?) Did you eat eggs yesterday?

(It is a YES/NO QUESTION)

Exercise
Change the verb form!

Susan (eat) oranges yesterday.

Susan ate oranges yesterday.

They (study) five minutes ago.

They studied five minutes ago.

Change the form

Susan ate orange yesterday.


( - ) Susan did not eat orange yesterday.
( ? ) Did Susan eat orange yesterday?

They studied five minutes ago.


( - ) They did not study five minutes ago.
( ? ) Did they study five minutes ago?

Informative Question

It has a question word.

What

Who

When

Where

Why

How

Examples

What did you eat this morning?


Who did you visit last night?
you = subject
I visited Ina last night.

Who gave you a wedding ring last


night?
you = object
John gave me a wedding ring last
night.

Examples (cont.)

When did you go to Singapore?

Where did your father sleep last


night?

Why did Ivan and Calvin cry?

How did you feel this morning?

2 Sentences Categories

Verbal Sentence

It has a verb.
E.g. The boy played happily.

Nominal Sentence
It has no verb.
It may have:

Noun:

Herman was a doctor.


Adjective: I was sleepy.
Place: My parents were at Paragon.

It has to be: WAS or WERE

Which ones are the


Nominal Sentences?

Those players were so tired.


Yohan typed very fast.
My friends and I were at
Colloseum two weeks ago.
Mom cooked in the kitchen last
night.
All of us were babies.

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