hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about American English grammar
specifically the simple past not to be confused with the simple present let's
look at two sentences here to give us an idea of the difference before we go on
and talk more about the simple past in the simple past we will be more specific
I worked yesterday that's the simple past in the simple present I work every
day that's rather general isn't it I work every day so it doesn't mean I'm
working right now it just means that i work every day I worked yesterday that
specifically telling us yesterday I worked not every day but yesterday okay
let's move on and we're going to look at a few regular and irregular verbs to
help us understand them are you ready when we're talking about the simple past
we're going to use many verbs that are called regular verbs regular verbs what
is a regular verb a regular verb has an ED ending and ED ending when we talk
about it in the simple past washed SH makes it sound instead of a good right
we have washed worked what cleaned those are pretty simple to use regular verbs
regular means you normal typical then we have which we
also use with the simple past verbs that are called irregular here regular here
regular okay your regular simply means that it's not regular near regular is
unusual not normal not typical not the norm right so we have words like begin
we don't say begin we say began come come here came my dog came here okay not
cummed drink not drink drank is the past tense the simple past verb or a river
great eat eight and of course there are many many many more regular verbs and
irregular verbs but in this video I want to point out what each type is and that
we do use them with the simple past alright and that concludes this lesson
thank you for watching the video and I look forward to seeing you at our next
lesson goodbye for now