Past Simple

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• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

True Crime

Objectives

2. Who did it?

1. The past simple

3. Detecting Lies

Past simple

When you want to write about something you did in the past, you use the verb tense past simple.

Regular Verbs

You form the past simple by adding ‘-ed’ after the verb:

 

I talked to her yesterday.

You helped me yesterday.

He cleaned his room yesterday.

Exceptions

• If a verb ends with ‘-y’, the past simple ends with ‘-ied’:

I tried to call you yesterday.

• If the ‘-y’ follows another vowel (a, e, i, o, u), the past simple ends with ‘-ed’:

I stayed at home yesterday.

Irregular verbs

Irregular verbs have a past simple tense that you just have to learn.

For instance:

• ‘to be’:
 ‘was’ and ‘were’ (I was / you were / (s)he was / it was / we were / you were / they were)

• ‘to have’:
 ‘had’ (I had / you had / (s)he had / it had / we had / you had / they had)

• ‘to do’:
 ‘did’ (I did / you did / (s)he did / it did / we did / you did / they did)

Other examples: Irregular verbs

to begin (began), to come (came), to drink (drank), 

to eat (ate), to find (found), to give (gave),

to go (went), to know (knew), to make (made), 

to read (read), to say (said), to see(saw), 

to sit (sat), to take (took), to tell (told) 

and to write (wrote)

Tegenwoordige Tijd

He walks

I am

She finds

Verleden Tijd

Tegenwoordige Tijd

He walks

I am

She finds

Verleden Tijd

He walked

I was

She found

Vragend maken

He walked to school yesterday

Vragend maken

He walked to school yesterday

Did he walk to school yesterday?

Did they do it?

Mr. S. Kloss was kidnapped

- CEO of a large toy company.

- Kidnapped on Monday afternoon around 3 pm.

Suspects I Alibi I Interrogation

Mrs G. Runlo was murdered

- Mayor of a small muncipality.

- Murdered at home on sunday  afternoon around 11 am.

Suspects I Alibi I Interrogation

Detecting Lies