SIMPLE PASTREGULAR VERBS

TIMELINE

Past Present

Future

2014 2015 2016

USE

The Past Simple expresses a past

action that is now finished.

•We played football yesterday.

•I visited Paris in 2013.

USE

The Past Simple expresses a past

action that is now finished.

•We played football yesterday.

•I visited Paris in 2013.

SPELLING

•Add ‘ed’ to the verb:

•Start → started

•Finish → finished

•Verbs ending with ‘e’, add just ‘d’

•Arrive → arrived

•Survive → Survived

•Put the following verbs in the simple past:

Add either ‘d’ or ‘ed’.

•Accept → Accept

•Add → Add

•Admire → Admire

•Advise → Advise

•Afford → Afford

•Agree → Agree

•Put the following verbs in the simple past:

•Accept → Accepted

•Add → Added

•Admire → Admired

•Advise → Advised

•Afford → Afforded

•Agree → Agreed

•Verb ends in ‘y’, change ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add ‘ed’

•Cry → cried

•Study → studied•One vowel verb, double the consonant

•Stop → stopped

•Beg → begged

•Put the following verbs in the simple past:

Grab →

Employ →

Plan →

Empty →

Copy →

Dry →

•Put the following verbs in the simple past:

Grab → Grabbed

Employ → Employed

Plan → Planned

Empty → Emptied

Copy → Copied

Dry → Dried

•Put the following verbs in the simple past:

Examine Examined

Travel

Rescue

Investigate

Deliver

Seat

Construct

Listen

FORM

Affirmative

I

finishedyesterday

He/She/It

We

You

They

Negative

I

He/She/I

t

We

You

They

didn’t

(did not) arrive

yesterday.

FORM• Question

• The question in the Past Simple is formed with did.

I

arrive?

When did He/she/it

We

You

They