Past Simple

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Past Simple

Positive sentence: Subjective+ Past Verb+ Complement.

Negative Sentence: Subjective+ did+ not+ Infinitive Verb without 'to"+ Complement.

Question: Did+ subjective+ Infinitive Verb without"to"+ Complement?
The Simple Past is used:

-   To express completed action in the past

Ex: I saw a ghost last Friday.

-   To describe a series of completed actions in the past

Ex: I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim.

-   To express habits in the past

Ex: When I was young, I watched lots of television every day after school.

-    For stative verbs, which are verbs that do not express an action, but a state of mind or being  E.g. have (own), be, think (believe), know, dislike, need, owe, understand, wish

Ex: He had a small cottage in the woods.

Time Expressions with Past Simple Tense

Yesterday;   Ago;    Last month;    Last week;    Last year;    In 2003;    In 2007;    …

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Mrs.ET Sopheak

Lecturer in Economics