Past Simple
I. Formation
We use the past simple /Present to express past actions/events particularly woken they occured at a specifie moment use of adverbes as yesterday, ago.
Eg : - I was at the market yesterday
- Alex called me two days ago.
- Past of to be
NB : to be in the past is was / were.
Use was for singular subject, were for plural subject.
- Past simple of ordinary verbs
- Affirmative form
- Regular verb : S + V + ed + C
Eg : They played again.
- Iregular verb : S + Preterit of the verb + C
Eg : To go I went home.
To know he knew the answer.
- Interrogative form
We use the auxiliary did (the verb takes thes the infinitive form to).
Structure : did + S + V + C + ?
Eg : I asked money did I aske money ?
She went home did she go home ?
We studied in group did we study in group ?
- Negative form
We use did (the verb takes the infinitive form to)
Eg : I spoke french I did not speak french.
He tried a pot He didn't try a pot.
- Interronegative form
We use did (the verb takes the infinitive form to)
Structures : - did + S + not + V + C + ?
- didn't + S + V + C + ?
Eg : He greeted us did he not greet us ?
He carried my bike didn't he carry my bag ?