Past forms

Past forms

1. Past simple

   • Regular verbs
     • base +ed= simple
       • Walk+ed=walked
         • Push+ed=pushed
         • For regular verbs ending in the vowel -e,add-d
           • EX: hate=hated
             • free=freed
           • For verbs that end in a vowel+y,add-ed
             • play=played
               • enjoy=enjoyed
             • ex: My sister lived in Dubai for five year
   • Irregular verbs
     • -d,ed,or-ied
       • ex: beat,beat,beaten
         • ex: we beat the home team yesterday
           • I've never beaten tom at chess.
             • Do you think you could beat him?
             • principle parts of iregular verbs
               • I tell a joke (present) , I told a joke (past) , I have told a joke (past participle)
       • Mark Taiwan wrote (write) many books in his life

2. Past continuous

   • Action in progess at the particular time in past
     • Ex: I was eating
       • was/were+ing
         • Forms
           • Expression
             • last week, Last night, Yestarday morning
             • Negative
               • I wasn't writing
               • Positive
                 • I was writing
                 • Interrogative
                   • Was i writing?