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Monday, July 11, 2011

Simple past: revision

2nd Year Students

Some weeks ago I already created a post with exercises on simple past that you can find following this link:
http://funwithenglishandmore.blogspot.com/2011/05/simple-past.html

Let's revise the grammar structure, now.


Affirmative from
Subject + verb in the past + .... + time.
Mary cooked pizza, baked a cake and prepared a wonderful picnic last week.

Negative form
Subject + did not (didn't) + verb base form + ... + time.
Mary didn't cook pizza, didn't bake a cake last wee.

Interrogative form
Did+ subject+ verb base form + ... + time?
Did Mary cook pizza yesterday?


 In English there are regular and irregular verbs.


Regular verbs form the past adding -ed, - d, ied, double consonant and -ed.
cook - cooked
If a verb ends with -e:     like - liked
If a verb ends with vowel + y: stay - stayed
If a verb end with consonant + y: study - studied
Verbs like stop, prefer, travel: stopped, preferred, travelled


Irregular verbs have their own form in the past.
Here you find a list of the most common irregular verbs.
Irregular verb list



More exercises
http://www.isabelperez.com/exer/pastmix.htm
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/exercises/past_mistakes.htm
http://www.isabelperez.com/happy/tenses/exercises/past_quest1.htm
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=3303
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=475#a

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