Sunday, 22 May 2011

Simple Past Tense With Examples - Spoken English At Home

Simple Past Tense

The Simple Past Tense is formed by adding -ed form to the base form, Ex: worked, helped, played.

Affirmative Statements                            Negative Statements

We wrote.                                                   We did not write.
He wrote.                                                    He did not write.

Affirmative Questions                              Negative Questions

Did we write ?                                           Did we not write ?
Did he write ?                                            Did he not write ?

The Simple Past Tense is used: 

i ) To say that an event occurred or that something was the case at a particular time in the Past. 


Ex: We saw the circus yesterday.
        He died in 1984.
        They did not meet any one last week.
        I received a letter a week ago.