## Exercise 3 - Past Simple

Now we are going to work with the past tense. More specifically; the Past Simple.

The past simple for regular verbs consists of:

- the infinitive (hele werkwoord) + ed
- Take into consideration that irregular forms have different forms. You had to study these from the book so I am not going to elaborate more on those.

We use the Past Simple for:

- past actions and situations;
  - a single completed action in the past
  - repeated actions in the past
    - Caroline phoned her family every day when she was on holiday.
  - a series of actions (when one thing happens after another) in the past
  - situations that finished in the past
    - He lived from 1500 to 1539.

We also use the Past Simple with adverbs of time, for example when, after, last year, ten minutes ago etc.