Tenses
Simple Past
- Simple Past - forms of affirmative, negative sentences, questions
- Simple Past - pronunciation of ending '-ed'
- Simple Past - signal words
- Simple Past - special verbs
- Simple Past - spelling
- Simple Past - use
Simple Past of regular verbs is built by adding -ed or -d. It is sometimes necessary to introduce small changes in spelling of the word. The changes in question are listed in the box provided below. As far as irregular verbs
are concerned it is vital to know their forms in order to be able to build Simple Past Tense correctly.
| rule | infinitive | past participle | |
| verbs ending with -e | -d | phone | phoned |
| smile | smiled | ||
| agree | agreed | ||
| lie | lied | ||
| verbs NOT ending with -e | -ed | ask | asked |
| clean | cleaned | ||
| follow | followed | ||
| video | videoed | ||
| verbs ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel double their consonant | beg | begged | |
| rub | rubbed | ||
| in two-syllable verbs the last consonant is doubled when the last syllable is stressed and it includes a single consonant preceded by a vowel | prefer | preferred | |
| refer | referred | ||
| occur | occurred | ||
| -y turns into -i when it is preceded by a consonant | -ed | carry | carried |
| deny | denied | ||
| fry | fried | ||
| try | tried |
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