Do all exercises in your notebook Past simple: regular and irregular Regular verbs Irregular verbs Affirmative start ➞ started arrive ➞ arrived study ➞ studied stop ➞ stopped go ➞ went put ➞ put eat ➞ ate see ➞ saw Negative He didn’t start yesterday. I didn’t arrive on Monday. We didn’t study hard. She didn’t stop singing. We didn’t go to America. They didn’t put it there. You didn’t eat much. I didn’t see the dog. We use the past simple to talk about actions and events in the past. We got really good marks in our exams. They didn’t know the answers. With regular verbs, we usually form the past simple by adding -ed to the infinitive. She played football yesterday. With regular and irregular verbs, the negative of the past simple is formed by putting did not before the verb. We usually use the contracted form didn’t. She did not work today. We didn’t buy Laura a birthday present. We use the infinitive form of the verb after didn’t. We didn’t arrive in time for the concert. NOT We didn’t arrived in time for the concert. We often use past time expressions with past simple verbs. I worked really hard last year. My sister went to the cinema at the weekend. He didn’t play volleyball last month. Past simple: questions Yes/No questions Wh- questions Did you wear your diamond necklace tonight? Yes, I did. No, I did not (didn’t). Where did you go after dinner, Miss Olive? I went to my aunt’s room. Did she ask Mr Parker for more champagne? Yes, she did. No, she did not (didn’t). What did he hide? He hid his glue. We use did + pronoun + infinitive to form yes/no questions in the past simple. Did he go to the concert last night? Questions in the past simple are formed in the same way with regular and irregular verbs. Did you talk about it? Did you hear the story? When we give a short answer in the past simple, we do not use the verb. Did she open the door? Yes, she did. NOT Yes, she did open. To ask for more information about the past, we use wh- question words before did. The question words include; how, how long, how many, how much, what, when, where, who and why. How did you travel to Greece? When did they make the cake? Why did they cancel the game? We use the infinitive of the verb in all question forms. Did they leave after the class? NOT Did they left after the class? Where did you go? NOT Where did you went? 70 Unit 5 Language reference Time expressions after before last weekend last year next one Christmas one day one winter one year then when Ghost stories blood curious ghost haunted hear murdered noise plot stain story Richmond
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