11 Read and write. Be a grammar detective! Past simple tense
. We use the past simple tense to talk about events in the past. All persons are the same.
• To make the past simple tense of regular verbs, we add -ed e.g. look → looked.
For regular verbs that end in e we add de.g.live → lived.
. For regular verbs that end in y we change y toi and and add ed e.g. try → tried.
. For regular verbs that end in consonant, vowel, consonant, we double the final
consonant e.g. stop stopped.
. Some verbs are irregular and you need to learn these e.g. go → went, have had.
Present
Past
Present
Past
Present
Past
jump
jumped
travel
tidy
like
notice
want
TO
hop
close
drop