Grammar lesson | Simple past tense | Regular and Irregular verbs | Pronunciation and Spelling
This lesson is an introduction to past simple tense. It includes the positive form, regular and irregular verbs, pronunciation and spelling.
It doesn't include negative and questions - let me know if you would like a video on this in the comments :-)
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So, to make simple past, is usually very easy. You simply add ‘ed’ to the base verb – most of the time. So clean becomes cleaned. Watch becomes watched and Play becomes played.
All past verbs with ed – are called regular verbs.
Most verbs in English are regular. But it’s important to learn the irregular verbs. Especially the common ones. Go here to see the list: http://www.numberoneinstitute.com/gra...
Now, although regular verbs are generally easy there are a couple of important points. One is about spelling and the other about pronunciation.
What did you do today? Write some sentences below in past tense.