Past tense

Simple past tense is used for describing acts that have already been conduded and whose exact time of occurrence is known. Furthermore, simple past is used for retelling successive event. That is why it is commonly used in storytelling.

Simple past is formed for regular verbs by adding –ed to the root of a word.

Example
- He walked to the store

A negation is produced by adding did not and the verb in its infinitive form.

Example
- He did not walk to the store

Formula
S + tobe (was/were) + …..
S + verbII + complement
S + did not + verbII + complement
Did + s + verb I

Example
o The train was ten minutes late
o You walked to school yerterday
o You did not walk to school yesterday
o Did you walk to school yesterday?

Adverbs used
- Yesterday
- Yesterday mornong
- Last Monday
- An hour ago
- Two days ago
- In 1987
- The other day
- Every day
- Last year
- Last nigth
- Last year
- A few minute ago
- A fornight ago
- The day before yesterday