Simple Past in English is a tense that is used to describe actions that occurred and resulted in a near or distant past. Too many times we can use adverbs of time to support the idea of the past. For example:
I worked in Coca Cola
I worked at Coca Cola
She sang on my birthday last week
She sang on my birthday last week
As you can see the structure of the sentences of the past resemble the structure of the present simple except for some differences in writing verbs.
A look at how we can use contiación simple past with different personal pronouns.
- SIMPLE PAST TENSE
Simple Past
AFFIRMATIVE
Affirmative Interrogative
Negative Interrogative
Negative
I played
I played Did I play?
I played?? I did not play
I did not play
You played
You played Did You Play?
Juguaste you?? You did not play
You do not juguaste
I played
He played Did I play?
Juguó? Him? I did not play
He did not play
She played
She played Did She Play?
Juguó? Her? She did not play
She played
It played
He / She Did It play juice?
Juguó? / Her? It did not play
He / she did not play
We played
Did We play We play?
Juguamos us?? We did not play
We do not play
You played
Did You play you played?
Juguaron you?? You did not play
You did not play
They played
He / she played Did They play?
Juguaron? They / them? They did not play
He / she did not play
Looking at the chart above we can see:
- The infinitive of the verb undergoes a transformation when used in the affirmative form of the past simple. For example:
With regular verbs: the verb is added the letter "d" or "ed"
Infinitive Love (Love)
Loved last time (loved)
With irregular verbs: Changes to the way past time
Infinitive Drink (Drink)
Drank Last Time (drank)
When a question in simple past, appears the auxiliary Did, who Citua the beginning of the question and returns the infinitive verb form either the regular or irregular verb. For example:
- With regular verbs:
She loved the affirmative (She loved)
Did she love interrogative? (Did he love her?)
With irregular verbs
She drank the affirmative (She drinks)
Did She interrogative drink? (She drank??)
- When an action is denied in the past simple, appears in the auxiliary Did negatively or Did'nt Did not. Returning to their infinitive verb either regular or irregular verbs. For example:
With regular verbs:
She loved the affirmative (She loved)
She did not negatively love (She did not love)
With irregular verbs
She drank the affirmative (She drinks)
She did not drink negatively? (She did not drink)
In short order to form a sentence in the simple past, we must distinguish and know regular verbs and irregular verbs.
