Simple past tense by Martha Camelo

The simple past tense is used to talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the past.

You form the simple past of a verb by adding -ed , the end of a regular verb but, irregular verb forms have to be learned

I was at home yesterday.My parents were at the supermarketMaradona was a good football

player.Michel Jackson was a famous singerYou were excellent student last year

Was Michel Jackson a bad singer?No, he wasn´t a bad singer.Were you a tennis player?No, I weren´t a tennis player.Was Lina Marulanda an ugly woman?No, she wasn´t an ugly woman

Sharon studied Japanese for five years.

We talked on the phone for thirty minutes.

We waited for one hour.You played basketball last weekendShe watched a horror film last night

The auxiliary of the past tense is

Did you enjoy the film?Yes, I enjoyed the filmNo, I didn´t enjoy the film.

Did Michel Jackson Sing Pop songs? Yes, he sang pop songs. Did Maradona write a history book? No, he didn´t write a history book. Did García Márquez write One hundred

years of solitude? Yes, he wrote One hundred years of

solitude.

Group A Voiceless sound: – p – k – s – ch – sh – f – x –

h- pronounce ED as “T” Example: Ask, asked = ask(T) Ed as “T” Asked baked brushed cookedcracked crashed danced (da:ns) + t dresseddropped escaped finished fixedguessed helped hoped jumped kissed

Voiced sound : – l – v – n – m – r – b – v – g – w – y – z – and vowel sounds (diphthongs) pronounce ED as “D” Example: Allow, allowed = allow(D) Ed as “D” advised (ad’vaiz) + dagreed allowed answered appeared arrived Believed belonged burned called carried changed closed covered cried damaged described died

T or D pronounce ED as “ID” Example: Need, needed = need(id) Ed as “ID” Accepted afforded attendedarrested collected contacted counted decideddefended demanded divided ended expanded expected exported flooded graduated hated hunted included invited invented landed needed painted