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about the past simple tense
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so the first thing that we
really should answer is the question
what is the past simple tense
well it is very
simple okay it's very simple so remember
that this is not difficult okay and
i think that you will be able to
understand it okay
past simple tense is used when we talk
about
something that happened once or
several times in the past
uh or for something that was true
for some time in the past
so let's look at some examples
so here we have a question
um that requires
us to answer in the simple past
tense so as you can see here
the question is what did you do
yesterday
okay yesterday is in the past
so our answer must use
simple past tense
okay i taught students
is one answer i watched
a youtube video and i
talked to my friends
past tense is or simple past is mostly a
subject plus a verb
and ed okay and you can see that
right here with
the verb watched and
talked it has ed
as the ending and this means past tense
taught is an irregular
past tense verb which means
it doesn't use ed
past tense is usually formed by adding
ed to a verb however
there are many irregular verbs
okay that don't use ed
and here you can see um a small
list of these verbs
okay and you can see here we have
the be verb
it doesn't use ed it changes to was or
were okay we have a few more
uh let's look at yeah buy becomes
bought right uh
come changes to came
do and did these are all
irregular uh verbs
so they don't use ed the only way
to learn these is actually
to memorize these words and their
special endings
so yes it takes some time but
if you memorize them then you can easily
use the past tense
so past simple tense is used
when we talk about something that
happened once in the past
okay for example i met
my wife in 2005.
or we went to vietnam
for our holidays okay
or they watched a movie last night
all of these things happened once
in the past
past simple tense is also used when we
talk about something
that happened several times in the past
so for example when i was a boy
i walked a mile to school every day
or we swam a lot
while we were on holiday okay and these
these examples
here they happened several times
in the past so you can also use simple
past
tense or to talk about
things that happen several times
past simple tense is also used when we
talk about
something that was true for some time
in the past okay for example
i lived abroad for 10
years okay
or he enjoyed being a student
so this would mean that it's true
in the past but maybe not true
right now so we can use
the past tense to talk about these
things
okay so now we're gonna learn about
how to make questions
in the simple past tense all right
it's very easy so you can see with this
chart here
that we use did the word
did to make questions
uh in the past simple tense
so here you can see we have did
and then or did i or did you
did we okay so did and then a pronoun
and then the verb
so you can put any verb there did i
see or did i hear
any verb is okay
here we have a few examples okay so you
can see here
we put the verb in red and
you can see that there is no
ed here
did we went
to the store is incorrect because
did is the past tense
so you don't need to put ed in a past
tense question okay it is not
necessary
questions that start with who
often don't use did
okay so we have some examples here like
who played
the game or who opened the box
for these questions you need
ed when you're asking because
you're not using the word did
all right so here you can see that
question words like when
what or where they go
before did to make a question
okay so they're the first word in the
sentence
so for example when
did he listen to this song
where did they watch a movie
why did we go yesterday
these are all examples of questions
in past tense
in the past tense uh we can also form
negatives
uh by using didn't or did not
okay and you can use the contraction
here didn't is is a more natural way
of speaking but if you don't like to do
that then
did not is okay
let me erase the marker there
all right so here we have another chart
okay and you can see the pronouns here
okay followed by
didn't so i didn't and then
a verb right here
again you don't need ed because
of did not
so you can see some examples here
they didn't go travel this year
or we didn't watch a movie
or i didn't see you yesterday
all of these verbs go
watch and see don't have e d
and c does not change to went
okay because of did
it's already in past tense
all right it's also important to
remember
that be verbs in this simple past
they have there's two b verbs
for past tense okay and it changes
depending on the pronoun
so look at the chart here you can see
there the first
pronoun is i and the be verb
is was but you
does not use was it's
you were okay and
you should try to remember okay that
you we and they all
use were as their
be verb so that is an important
thing to remember so that you don't make
the mistake in the future of saying you
was or
we was okay so just try to remember that
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