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5/17/2013

Past Simple Tense

7:31 AM Posted by Vandaime No comments
Past Simple

Simple past tense is used to talk about a completed action or state occured in the past.

Rules A (without verb) :
Positive :
They/We/You + were + adjective/noun/complement.
I/He/She/It + was + adjective/noun/complement.
Examples :
* They were lazy yesterday.
* Maradona was a famous football player ten years ago.
* We were in room 302 last monday.

Negative :
They/We/You + were + not + adjective/noun/complement.
I/He/She/It + was + not + adejctive/noun/complement.
Examples :
* The employees weren't diligent.
* The employee wasn't diligent.

Introgative :
Was + I/he/she/it + adjective/noun/complement + ?
Were + they/we/you + adejctive/noun/complement + ?
Examples :
* Where were you last night?
* Were you sad?

Rules B (with verb) :
Positive :
They/we/you/I/he/she/it + v2+ O.
Examples :
* Fandi ate meatballs last week.
* He took the money and run.
* I felt cold.

Negative :
They/we/you/I/he/she/it + didn't + v1 + O.
Examples :
* The manager didn't come late to the meeting.
* He didn't see her standing there.
* My father didn't buy this car.

Introgative :
Did + they/we/you/I/he/she/it + v1 + O ?
Examples :
Did they go to Tokyo last weekend?
Did she go home two minute ago?
Did you copy that file yesterday?

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