How to Use Your Past Simple Forms: Cómo usar tus formas pasadas simples - Englishentry
Forms/Structure:
Positive/Affirmative: (add
'ed or d’ to the base form)
Negative:(add
did not or didn't before the base form)
Question: (add
did plus
subject before the base form)
When I say base form, it means the present form of the verb. For example: work is the present and worked is the past simple. We normally use past simple to talk about a completed event or activity. The action started and was completed.
Let us study the following examples :
Albert Einstein
was a German scientist. He
lived from 1879 to 1955. He
developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. He
was only 76 years old when he
died. (
Lived/developed/was/died are all in past simple)
Very often the past simple ends in
-ed (
regular verbs)
Examples:
- I work in a travel agency now. Before that I worked in a department store.
- We invited my classmates to our party, but they decided not to come.
- The police stopped me on my way home last night.
- Jenni passed her exam because she studied very hard.
