Simple Past Tense - Regular and Irregular Past Tense

• Simple Past Tense

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• Use the past simple tense for actions that happened before the present time. The past simple has regular and irregular verbs.

                            ㅤPAST <--------- NOWㅤ

  
  

  John visited France last year.

• Regular and Irregular Past Tense Verbs

• Regular past tense are verbs that end with -ed.

  pack + -ed = packed

  
  

  Some verbs have special spelling rules with -ed.

  
  

  love + -d = loved (add -d)

  plan + -ed = planned (double the final consonant)

  carry + -ed = carried (change -y to -i)
• Some verbs are irregular in the past tense.

  Do NOT add -ed to irregular verbs.

• be (am, is, are)	was/were
  ran	run
  put	put

 

Source : Alison