Образование Past Simple

Форма Past Simple правильных глаголов образуется прибавлением к основе инфинитива окончания – ed

EX: to end – end ed; to work – work ed; to open – open ed

Форма Past Simple неправильных глаголов образуется различными способами (список неправильных глаголов):

EX: to speak – spoke, to meet – met, to know – knew

Для построения вопросительной и отрицательной формы используется вспомогательный глагол to do в Past Simple – DID:

I saw him before Я видел его раньше

I didn’t see him before Я не видел его раньше

Did I see him before? Видел ли я его раньше?

EXERCISES

EXERCISE 1. Form the Past Simple Tense from the verbs given below

To bring, to blow, to do, to seem, to last, to draw, to break, to listen, to read, to jump, to feel, to hear, to sleep, to cry, to appear, to love, to show, to sing, to hide, to get, to understand, to forget, to remember, to tell, to ask..

EXERCISE 2. Put the verbs in the following sentences into negative and interrogative form

1. He knew her address. 2. This engineer needed help. 3. I liked my new apartment. 4. They found a new solution of this problem. 5. She worked very hard on this problem. 6. He realized that he was right. 7. I saw this movie yesterday. 8. I was in Moscow last year. 9. She decided to go to the country and left last month. 10. They moved to their new house.