Simple Past Tense Regular Verbs
We form the affirmative of most regular verbs by adding – ed to the main verb.
Ex: Walk - walked
We form negations with personal subject pronoun + didn´t + base form of the main verb.
We didn´t go to the beach last Sunday.
We form questions with did + personal subject pronoun + base form of the main verb.
Did you work in a big company?
We form affirmative short answers with personal subject pronoun + did and negative short answers with personal subject pronoun + didn´t.
Did you see her? Yes, I did Did you see her? No, I didn´t
We add -d to verbs ending in e: I phone — I phoned
For verbs ending in consonant + y we drop the y and add -ied: I cry — I cried
For verbs ending in a vowel + y, we add ed: I stay — I stayed
For verbs ending in one stressed vowel between two consonants, we double the last consonant and add -ed: I stop — I stopped
For verbs ending in -l, we double the l and add ed: I travel — I travelled
Time expressions used with the past simple: yesterday, yesterday morning/ evening etc, last night / week etc, two weeks/ a month ago, in 1991.
