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.