Past simple

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Past simple

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

Je gebruikt de past simple wanneer iets in het verleden is gebeurd en al is afgelopen.

Past Simple - Regular Verbs

After a regular verb you put '-ED'

I walk -> I walked

He plays -> He played

They listen -> They listened

Past Simple - let op spelling!

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 - Irregular verbs

Sommige ww in het engels zijn onregelmatig, dat betekent dat ze in de verleden tijd geen -ed krijgen maar een eigen vorm hebben. Dit is altijd het 2e rijtje -> to fly - flew - flown

To write -> wrote; I wrote her a letter last week

to go -> went; He went to Italy last year

to make -> made: They made a very nice meal two days ago

Past Simple - Irregular verbs

There are no rules for the irregular verbs, you just have to learn them by heart

(uit het hoofd leren helaas)

Past Simple - Questions/negations

Questions -> Did + HELE WERKWOORD

You walked to school yesterday.

Did you walk to school yesterday?

Negations -> didn't + HELE WERKWOORD

You didn't walk to school yesterday.

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
• when

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

They ....... (go) home after school yesterday.

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: buy

1. buyed
2. bought
3. boughd
4. bught

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

Fill in: We ..... on holiday 2 years ago.

1. go
2. went
3. been
4. walked

Fill in: I ..... very happy yesterday.

1. am
2. is
3. was
4. were

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.

He worked all day.

1. Did he worked all day?
2. Did he work all day?
3. Does he worked all day?
4. Does he work all day?

I had a dog.

1. Had I a dog?
2. Have I a dog?
3. Do I have a dog?
4. Did I have a dog?

My friend saw a sheep.

1. Did my friend see a sheep?
2. My friend see sheep?
3. Does my friend saw a sheep?
4. Do my friend see a sheep?

My father cooked.

1. Cooked my father?
2. Did my father cooked?
3. Did my father cook?
4. Cook my father did?

He went to school.

1. Went he to school?
2. Did he went to school?
3. Did he go to school?
4. Does he went to school?

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