Time to go to the Past!!!!

 

So let's get more in debt to what I said, to use a past we must first take the verb from present and turn it into a ver in the past, example:

Present Form	Past Form
Play	Played
Drink	Drinked
Help	Helped
Cook	Cooked
Open	Opened

This is very simple, the difficult part of the past form are the Irregular Verbs, they are verbs that do not follow the rule of the "ed" so they change the word, examples:

be begin break bring buy build choose come cost cut do draw drive eat feel find get give go have hear hold keep know leave lead let lie lose make mean meet pay put run say sell send set sit speak spend stand take teach tell think understand wear win write

was/were began broke brought bought built chose came cost cut did drew drove ate felt found got gave went had heard held kept knew left led let lay lost made meant met paid put ran said sold sent set sat spoke spent stood took taught told thought understood wore won wrote

So let me give you an example:

Present: I sell cars - Past: I sold cars.

Present: I swim at the pool - Past: I swam at the pool.

Now that we have that all cleared up let's do some exercises 😃

Download the following Word Document and complete it: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1hspx5ckxrk7bgw/SIMPLE%20PAST.docx?dl=0

After you finish the work please e-mail it to me so I can grade it, if you need futher assistence please read page 98 to 102 of "Basic English Grammar" the link of the pdf. is in out introduction page, you have until Sunday the 17 to send it, if you have any doubts please contact me at the same e-mail: irving.salas@uabc.edu.mx