Introduction:
The meaning of past is “earlier than the
present time”. Thus Past is a tense used to express any action which took place
earlier & no longer exists.
Simple Past Tense is used to talk about a finished
action which has no relation to the present.
In simple past tense, past form of
verb is used. On the basis of their Past form, verbs can be categorised in
two - Regular Verbs & Irregular
Verbs.
Regular
Verbs – The verbs whose past form is formed
by adding the alphabets “d” and “ed” at their end, are called as Regular Verbs.
Example: play. Its past form is
played. Some more examples of regular verbs are walk, talk, look etc.
Irregular
Verbs – The verbs whose past form is not formed
by adding the alphabets “d” and “ed” at their end, are called as Irregular
Verbs.
Example: see, the past form of see is
seen. Some more examples are do, give, sleep etc.
Sentence
Structure in Simple Past Tense:
a) Positive or Affirmative Sentence:
Subject Verb in past form rest
of the sentence
I looked
at her.
We went
to the market.
Rohan slept
early.
b) Negative Sentence – did not
(didn’t) is used to make negative sentences
Subject did not(didn’t) Verb
in base form Rest of
the sentence
I didn’t
look at
her.
We didn’t go to
the market.
Rohan didn’t
sleep early.
c) Questions :
Question Word Auxiliary verb subject Verb Rest of the sentence
Did you go to the market?
When did
you
go to the market?
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