Irregular verbs - past simple

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• vmbo b, k, t, havo, vwo
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Past Simple
(in general)
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Past Simple

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

There are often words as 'yesterday', 'last week', 'this morning', 'last year', 'when I was little', 'in 2001' used in sentences. 

Examples

* Donald Trump talked about himself on the telly yesterday. 

* Barack Obama left the White House in January 2017.

* She went outside to play football.

Past Simple - Regular Verbs

After a regular verb you put '-ed/ d'  behind the verb in the Past Simple

present     past

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

Irregular verbs,
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IRREGULAR VERBS

Vertaling=het werkwoord in het Nederlands

1st column(rij) = verb (infinitive= het hele werkwoord in de t.t.)

2nd column = verb (past tense=verleden tijd)

3rd column = verb (past participle=voltooid deelwoord)

Irregular Verbs

Nederlands                  Tegenwoordige tijd      Verleden tijd               Voltooid deelwoord

1.wakker zijn                  awake                        awoke                          awoken

2                                     be                              was                              been

3                                     beat                           beat                              beaten

4                                     become                     became

5                                     begin                         began                           begun

6                                                                       bit                                 bitten

7                                      bleed                        bled

8                                                                       broke                            broken 

9                                       bring                        brought

10                                     build                        built                                built

11                                     burn                         burnt                              burnt

12                                     buy                          bought

13                                     catch                       caught

14                                     choose                    chose                              chosen

 come come

 cost cost

 cut cut cut

 deal dealt dealt

 dig dug dug

  dove dived

 do did

  drew drawn

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

We will ___ training at 8m. Don't be late!

1. begun
2. begin
3. began

I ___ in love with her the first time I saw her.

1. fell
2. fall
3. fallen

I'm early because I ___ here today.

1. drove
2. drived
3. driven

He broke his arm when he was ___ off his horse.

1. throw
2. thrown
3. threw

I ___ more than usual last weekend.

1. sleeped
2. sleep
3. slept

Did someone try to ___ your bag while you were on the train?

1. stolen
2. stole
3. steal

___ the tree until apples fall out of it.

1. Shook
2. Shake
3. Shaken

This chair only ___ me EU 7,50 when I bought it.

1. cost
2. costed
3. costs

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 Irregular verbs

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

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