SIMPLE PAST TENSE

We use the past simple to talk about actions and states which we see as completed in the past.

We can use it to talk about a specific point in time.

She came back last Friday.
I saw her in the street.
They didn't agree to the deal.

It can also be used to talk about a period of time.

She lived in Tokyo for seven years.
They were in London from Monday to Thursday of last week.
When I was living in New York, I went to all the art exhibitions I could.

You will often find the past simple used with time expressions such as these:

Yesterday
three weeks ago
last year
in 2002
from March to June
for a long time
for 6 weeks
in the 1980s
in the last century
in the past

Practise the Past Tense

1. Exercise
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6. Exercise
7. Write negative sentences
8. Write negative sentences
9. Write affirmative sentences
10. Write affirmative sentences
11. Write interrogative sentences
12. Write interrogative sentences
13. Wh-Questions
14. Wh-Questions
15. Wh-Questions: Order the words to make questions
16. Who Subject questions: Order the words to make questions
17. Who Subjects questions
18. Pronunciation: /t/ /d/ /id/
19. Hangman game for verbs