Hello students! Congratulations on completing Years 1 and 2 of American English. Now that you are better prepared and that your American English is stronger, during years 3, 4, and 5 of your American English studies with Maestro Sersea, you will receive a different English grammar lesson each week.
Each week we will focus on an English Grammar topic you can review. This week we focus on English Past Simple Tense. Here’s a link to where you can learn more about the Past Simple Tense: https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_past.htm
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lesson 3.5.3 year 3
American English language grammar lesson
” past simple tens”
The past simple tense is used to describe a completed activity that happened in the past, in the other words, it started in the past and ended in the past. The formula is …
subject + simple past + (v2 +) object, for example,
He played football. I took my shower. he went to his office.
for negative sentences formula is…
subject + did not +(v1) + object, for example,
He didn’t play football.
I didn’t take my shower.
I didn’t go to my office.
Dear teacher,
We use the Past Simple tense to talk about an action or a situation – an event happened in the past and the past, event can be short or long.
The formula is
subject + simple (v2) + object.
Ex: She went to USA on her vacation.
For negative sentences formula is
subject + did not +(v1) + object.
Ex: He didn’t come to school yesterday.
I did not study Mathematics.
Question form is
Did + Subject + V1 + object?
Ex: Did she stay home last night?
Did he go to work yesterday?
Thank you.