Past simple regular verbs +

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Past Simple

The past simple is what in Dutch is called the verleden tijd

Past Simple

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

Past Simple - Regular Verbs

After a regular verb you put '-ed'

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

  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

Past Simple - Questions/negations

?   Questions (vragen) -> Did + entire verb

     Did you walk to school yesterday?

-    Negations (ontkenningen)  -> didn't + entire verb

     You didn't walk to school yesterday.

Past Simple - Signal word

In Dutch signal words are called 'signaal woorden'  

These word help you to see if something happened in the past

• yesterday
• last week
• ten minutes ago
• in 2007

He _______ (to help) his sister.

1. helping
2. helped
3. helps
4. help'd

She _____ very hard.

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

We _____ (to walk) home alone.

1. walkt
2. wolked
3. wolk
4. walked

I ____ (to be) very happy yesterday.

1. am
2. is
3. was
4. were

____he _______ (to help) his sister?

1. helping
2. helped
3. help
4. help'd

____she _____ (to study) very hard?

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

___ we _____ (to walk) home alone?

1. walk
2. wolked
3. wolk
4. walked

____ I ____(to be) very happy yesterday.

1. am
2. is
3. was
4. were

He _______ (not to help) his sister.

1. helping
2. did helped
3. didn't help
4. help'd

She _____ (not to study) very hard.

1. studyd
2. did not study
3. studyed
4. studied

We _____ (not to walk) home alone.

1. walk
2. wolked
3. didn't walk
4. did walked

I ____(not to be) very happy yesterday.

1. am
2. was not
3. was
4. were

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