Name: Learn Past Simple Tense English Grammar Course
Uploaded: 2020-05-02T19:35:19.000Z
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In this video, I will introduce the past simple English tense.

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This grammar tense can help you explain a past general state, action, or habit.

There's a lot to learn and it's a very important tense, so keep watching.

In this video, I will talk about the 'be' verb in the past simple tense.

The 'be' verb in the past simple tense can be used to describe a past general state.

We use the 'be' verbs, 'was' and 'were' in this tense.

So for 'I', 'he', 'she', 'it', we use the past tense 'be' verb, 'was'.

However, for 'you', 'we' and 'they', we use 'were'.

'Your parents, or they were at the park.' and 'We were at home for two hours.'

In this last sentence, you see that the duration is emphasized.

Now I will talk about regular verbs in the past simple tense.

but really it doesn't matter for regular verbs in the past simple tense.

Because no matter what the subject is, all we have to do is add 'd' or 'ed'

Here the verb is 'play', so I added '-ed'.

For the past simple tense, I added '-ed'.

I only need to add a 'd' to make it the past tense.

And finally, 'They usually worked after school.'

And I added an 'ed' to make it in the past tense.

The word 'usually' shows that this was a habit.

Remember, the past simple tense can be used to show past habits.

Now, I'll talk about irregular verbs in the past simple tense.

Remember, for regular verbs, we only add 'd' or 'ed' to make a verb into the past tense.

However, for irregular verbs, we have to change the verb in a different way.

The next example says, 'Nara wrote a story.'

And because it's irregular to change it into the past tense, we change the verb to 'wrote'.

The verb here is 'come' and it's been changed to 'came'.

You'll notice that we had the word 'often' to show a habit.

The verb here is 'buy' and it's been changed to 'bought' to show the past simple tense.

And finally, 'My parents sent me money for a year.'

Here the verb 'sent' is the past tense of 'send'.

Here we also see 'for a year', this shows duration.

Now I will talk about the negative form for the 'be' verb in the past simple tense.

For the past simple tense, the negative 'be' verb

I  f the subject is 'I', 'he', 'she' or 'it', we say 'was not'.

For example, 'I was not' or 'she was not' or the contraction 'wasn't'.

Now, if the subject is 'you', 'we' or 'they',

We say 'were not' or the contraction 'weren't'.

And then, 'The dog', or it was not, or 'wasn't playful.'

Now, let's talk about how to form the negative in the past simple tense for non-'be' verbs,

What we do for non-'be' verbs is simply put 'did not' after the subject.

And you'll notice that for the verb, we don't make any changes.

Again, it's 'he did not', but here we used a contraction,

Again, here's the contraction for 'did not'.

And you'll notice that for the verb, we didn't change it at all.

Here's an irregular verb, and here's a regular verb, we keep them in the base form.

And finally, 'We didn't think about that.'

Again, we simply say 'did not' or 'didn't'.

Now I will introduce two ways to form questions for the past simple tense.

In this first sentence, we see the 'be' verb 'was'.

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