1.1 True Crime

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

Did they do it?