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Past Simple Tense

This section explains the use of the past simple tense to talk about actions or situations that happened in the past. It provides examples and guidelines for forming affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences in the past simple tense.

Forming Affirmative Sentences

• Start with the subject followed by the past tense verb and then add the complement.

• Example: "She played her guitar yesterday" (Ella tocó su guitarra ayer).

Forming Negative Sentences

• Add the auxiliary verb "did" before the subject, followed by "not" (or contracted as "didn't"), and then use the base form of the main verb.

• Example: "She did not play her guitar yesterday" or "She didn't play her guitar yesterday" (Ella no tocó su guitarra ayer).

Forming Interrogative Sentences

• Begin with the auxiliary verb "did," followed by the subject, base form of the main verb, and then add any complements.

• Example: "Did she play her guitar yesterday?" (¿Ella tocó su guitarra ayer?).

Regular and Irregular Verbs

This section discusses regular and irregular verbs in relation to forming past tense verbs. It explains that regular verbs simply require adding "-ed" to form their past tense, while irregular verbs undergo different changes.

Regular Verbs

• Regular verbs only need to add "-ed" at the end to form their past tense.

• Examples of regular verbs include work (worked), start (started), and love (loved).

Irregular Verbs

• Irregular verbs undergo different changes when forming their past tense.

• Examples of irregular verbs include drive (drove), come (came), and buy (bought).

Forming Negative and Interrogative Sentences

This section explains how to form negative and interrogative sentences in the past simple tense.

Forming Negative Sentences

• Use the auxiliary verb "did" followed by "not" (contracted as "didn't") before the base form of the main verb.

• Example: "She didn't play her guitar yesterday" (Ella no tocó su guitarra ayer).

Forming Interrogative Sentences

• Invert the order of the sentence and use the auxiliary verb "did" at the beginning, followed by the subject, base form of the main verb, and any complements.

• Example: "Did she play her guitar yesterday?" (¿Ella tocó su guitarra ayer?).

Practice Examples

This section provides practice examples to identify whether sentences are affirmative, negative, or interrogative in the past simple tense.

• "My mother didn't cook chicken": This sentence is negative and in the past tense using "didn't" for negation.

• "They dance hip hop": This sentence is present tense instead of past tense. The correct verb should be danced instead of dance.