Usage of Simple Past Tense
More Examples of Simple Past Tense
- Simple Past Tense is used to refer to an action or event in the past and in the certain time which was done (I went to America last year)
- Simple Past Tense is used to refer to an action or event that usual to be done in the past and not to be done anymore (I always went to school by car)
- Simple Past Tense is used to refer to an action or event in the past and in the uncertain (I went to America)
Form of Simple Past Tense
Affirmative
Subject + Verb 2
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/ she/ my friend/ it
studied English
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Negative
Subject + didn’t + verb 1
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/ she/ my friend/ it didn’t studied
English
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Interrogative
Did + subject + verb 1
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Did I/ you/ they/ we/ he/ she/ my friend/ it study English?
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Negative interrogative
Didn’t + subject + verb 1
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Didn’t I/ you/ they/ we/ he/ she/ my friend/ it study English?
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Short Answer Question
Simple
Past
Tense
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Question
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Short Answer
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Complete
Answer
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Did you speak English?
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Yes I did
No, I didn’t
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Yes I spoke English
No, I didn’t spoke English
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Did he speak English?
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Yes he did
No, he didn’t
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Yes he spoke English
No, he didn’t spoke English
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