Past simple

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Past Simple

The past simple is what in Dutch is called the verleden tijd

Past Simple

You use the past simple when something happened in the past and is finished

Past Simple - Regular Verbs

After a regular verb you put '-ed'

I walk -> I walked

He walks -> He walked

They walk -> They walked

Past Simple - Regular verbs

Spelling:
Als een werkwoord eindigt op een medeklinker + -y, dan verandert de -y in -ie:

• I carry - I carried

Let op, er verandert niets als het werkwoord eindigt op klinker + -y:

• I play - I played

Als een werkwoord eindigt op -e, dan komt er in de past simple alleen een -d achter:

• I live - I lived

In de past simple wordt de laatste medeklinker verdubbeld als er één klinker voor staat:

• I drop - I dropped

Past Simple - Questions

Questions 

- Did + entire verb

- Auxiliary verb (hulp ww) (was/were/could)

- WH questions (what, how, when, where, etc.)

Did you walk to school yesterday?

Past Simple negatives

Negations

- Didn't + entire verb

You didn't walk to school yesterday.

- Wasn't / couldn't

She wasn't in Italy last summer / I coudn't see the game

Past Simple - Signal word

In Dutch signal words are called 'signaal woorden'  

These word help you to see if something happened in the past

• yesterday
• last week
• ten minutes ago
• in 2007

My sister .......... (play) the guitar last year.

What is the past tense of: Help

1. helping
2. helped
3. helps
4. help'd

What is the past tense of: study

1. studyd
2. studyied
3. studyed
4. studied

What is the past tense of: study

1. studyd
2. studyied
3. studyed
4. studied

What is the past tense of: walk

1. walkt
2. wolked
3. wolk
4. walked

fill in: I ..... a sandwich yesterday.

1. eat
2. drink
3. drank
4. ate

You use a past simple when...

1. Something happend in the future
2. something happens every day
3. something happend in the past and is finished
4. something didn't happen yet.

When do you use the past simple?

Do you know what the past simple is?

What is a negative sentence?

1. Een positieve zin
2. Een negatieve zin
3. Een vraag zin

Make a positive (+) sentence
I ..... (to watch) a film on Netflix yesterday

Make a negative (-) sentence
We changed our flight

Make a question (?)
We watched the game last night

Make a positive (?) sentence
She ..... (to walk) to school this morning

Make a negative (-) sentence
The dog barked

Make a question (?)
Your mum was in Italy two weeks ago