The past + irregular verbs

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Welke tijd is de
Past Simple?

Past Simple

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

Past Simple - Signaawoorden

when

yesterday

last week

last year

three days ago

a long time ago

in 1989

Past Simple - Regular Verbs

After a regular verb you put '-ed'

I walk -> I walked

He walks -> He walked

They walk -> They walked

What is the past tense of: Help

1. Helping
2. Helped
3. Helps
4. Helpes

What is the past tense of: Talk

1. Talkked
2. Talking
3. Talks
4. Talked

What is the past tense of: Follow

1. Following
2. Follows
3. Followed
4. Followwed

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

What is the past tense of: study

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

What is the past tense of: live

1. liveed
2. lived
3. lieved
4. lifed

What is the past tense of: stop

1. stoped
2. stopped
3. stop
4. stooped

What is the past tense of: Follow

1. Following
2. Follows
3. Followed
4. Followwed

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Past Simple - Irregular verbs

Some verbs in English are irregular, this means that in the past tense they don't get '-ed' at the end, but have their own form.

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

Irregular verbs

to break - ……. - broken

1. breaked
2. broke
3. broked
4. brokked

Irregular verbs:
eat - ....... - eaten

1. ate
2. eated
3. atied
4. ated

Irregular verbs

to fly - …... - flown

1. flied
2. flewed
3. flyed
4. flew

Irregular verbs

To sleep - ….. - ......

1. slept
2. sleeps
3. slepped
4. sleeped

Irregular verbs:
blow - ... - blown

1. blow
2. blowned
3. blew
4. blowed

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Je gebruikt de Past Simple als ...

1. ...iets in het verleden aan de gang was
2. ...iets is gebeurd en/of afgerond is
3. ...iets op dit moment gebeurt
4. ...iets is begonnen en je er nog last van hebt

Peter .................... at a bank.

Sarah ....................  the trash last night.

Rachel ..................   in Utrecht last year

My  parents were ...................... in Spain last year.

worked

emptyd

lived

liveed

workked

emptied

robed

robbed