worked / got / went - past simple
They watch television every evening (present simple)
They watched television yesterday evening (past simple)
watched is the past simple :
I / we / you / they watched
he / she /it
the past simple is often ed ( regular verbes) For exemple :
work ---> worked clean ---> cleaned start ---> started
stay ---> stayed arrive ---> arrived dance ---> danced
- I clean my teeth every morning. This morning I cleaned my teeth.
- Terry worked in a bank from 1986 to 1993.
- Yesterday it rained all morning. It stopped at lunchtime.
- We enjoyed the party last night. We danced a lot and talked to a lot of people the party finished midnight.
Some verbes are irregular, the past simple is not ed. Here are some important irregular verbes.
| irregular verbes | irregular verbes |
|---|---|
| beging began | break broke |
| bring brought | build built |
| buy bought | catch caught |
| drink drank | eat ate |
| find found | fly flew |
| forget forgot | give gave |
| have had | know knew |
| leave left | lose lost |
| pay paid | see saw |
| stand stood | think thought |
- I usually get up early but this morning I got up at 9.30
- We did a lot of work yesterday.
- Caroline went to the cinema three times last week.
- Jim came into the room. took of his coat and sat down.