Step 6 - Grammar

Grammar
If you want to be able to do the assignments correctly you will need to know more about some grammar items.
Let's look at the Past Simple.

At first an exercise with regular verbs.
Fill in the correct form of the verb in brackets.

Which statement is correct?

  1. The past simple is used for completed actions in the past.
  2. The past simple is used for actions in the present.
  3. The past simple is used for actions in general that take place at the time
    of speaking.

Take a look at the Grammar Desk about Past Simple.

KB: Past Simple

The simple past often ends in –ed (regular verbs).
But some verbs are irregular. The simple past doesn’t end in –ed.
See the example.

Study the added list of irregular verbs: List of irregular verbs

To create a question in Simple past we normally put DID at the beginning of the question, then add a subject
(the person or thing that does the action) followed by the base form of the verb and only then add the rest of
the sentence.

Affirmative: You spoke Spanish.
Question: Did you speak Spanish?

We don’t use DID in questions that have the verb To Be or Modal Verbs
(can, must, might, should etc.).
Affirmative: The hotel was very nice.
Question: Was the hotel nice?

In questions and negatives, we add did/didn’t + infinitive.
Complete this. Drag.

A friend of yours went to Indonesia on holiday. You ask him some questions.
Create questions with 'did' or ‘was’ with the next words in this exercise.
Use the irregular verbs.
Example: (where/go) ................ Where did you go?