PAST SIMPLE

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PAST SIMPLE

This is probably the most popular and frequently used past tense in English. The closest similar tense in Dutch is Imperfectum.
We went to the cinema last Friday.
We gingen afgelopen vrijdag naar de bioscoop.
He worked really hard to get a good mark.
Hij wertke heel hard om een goede cijfer te krijgen.

Cases of use:

1. To talk about something that happened in the past, especially with time words yesterday, three days ago, last Sunday, in 2003, etc.:

They got married 14 years ago.

Last month my neihbours bought a new fridge.

My granny met her husband in 1999.

We danced and partied a lot in your youth. 

Cases of use

2. To tell a story where events happen one after another:
I came home, took off my shoes, washed my hands and went to the kitchen to cook my dinner.

The Little Red Riding Hood wanted to bring the basket to her grandma but on the way there she met a wolf. He was very cunning and planned to eat the girl.

Formation:

+He (she/it/I/we/you/they) worked yesaterday,
- He didn't work yesterday.
?1 Did he work yesterday?/Didn't he work yesterday?
?2 Where did he work yesterday?/Where didn't he work yesterday?
?3 He worked yesterday, didn't he?/He didn't work yesterday, did he?

English verbs (werkwoorden) can be regular and irregular.
# In case of a regular verb you need to add -d or -ed:
work - worked
like - liked

# In case of an irregular verb you need to learn the Past Simple form of a verb by heart.
eat - ate, swim - swam, buy - bought, etc.

Regular and irregular verbs

Regular verbs ending with -y:

study - studied
hurry - hurried

But!!!

play - played
enjoy - enjoyed

To double or not to double a consonant (medeklinker) before adding -ed??? 

stop - stopped
slam - slammed
fit-fitted
But!!!
lift - lifted
mix- mixed

x, w, q - are never doubled 

Independent verbs in Past Simple:
be - was/were
can - could
may - might

Last year he ... his French exam.

1. passed
2. passes
3. pass
4. is passing

We ... all night during that festival three yers ago.

1. partyed
2. party
3. partys
4. partied

What's the Past Simple form of the verb "catch"?

1. catched
2. catchied
3. caught
4. cought

What's the Past Simple form of the verb "deny"?

1. denyed
2. denied
3. denood
4. denying

Last year he ... 300 dollars in a lottery.

1. dropped
2. felt
3. won
4. took

She ... the missing pen under the sofa.

1. finded
2. founded
3. found
4. foundied

The man ... a pen, ... a letter and .. to drop it into the mailbox.

1. found, ate, went
2. drank, wrote, went
3. took, wrote, went
4. went, got, took