Past Tense

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Past tense is to tell the events or incidents at the past time.


Past Tense is used :
When the speaker thinks of an activity or state as occurred and completed at a specific time in the past.


For a non-fact in the present or future time. This is traditionally called the “subjunctive mood”.
Example: If I had the money now, I’d buy a car.


To refer a single event on the past.
Example: I called Mary last night.


The past habitual action.
Example: We went to school together, and we shared many
experiences.

The Simple Past Tense

Simple Past Tense is a kind of tense which is used to describe an event or action that happened already in a certain time in the past.

Adverbs used : yesterday, last night, last week, two days ago, a few minutes ago, last weekend, last month, last year, in 1984, etc.

Simple past for regular verbs is added by –ed to the root of a word.
Example: She worked at the office yesterday.

A negation is produced by adding did not and the verb in its infinitive form.
Example: She did not work at the office yesterday.

Question sentences are started with did as in Did she work at the office yesterday?

There are two pattern of Simple Past Tense:

1. (+) Subject + verb II + complement

(-) Subject + did not + verb I + complement

(?) Did + subject + verb I?

2. (+) Subject + to be (was/were)+ Object

(-) Subject + to be (was/were) + Not + Object

(?) To be (was/were) + Subject + Object?