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11 The Simple Past Tense

The Simple Past Tense is used for an action which took place in the past. The time of
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the action can be shown by the following expressions:

yesterday last night this morning last week

just now a few minutes ago an hour ago last year

(a) The verb ‘to be’ in the past tense is used as follows:

Verb to be Verb to be
Pronoun
(Present tense) (Past tense)
I am was

You
We are were
They

He
She is was
It

• I was surprised to see him just now.
• We were in the house yesterday.
• She was all alone this afternoon.

(b) Regular verbs in the past tense end in ‘d’ or ‘ed’.
• He jogged around the lake before dinner.
• Nina cycled to school when she stayed in Kedah.

(c) Irregular verbs form their past tense forms differently.
• blow – blew • leave – left
• grow – grew • sing – sang

(d) Some verbs do not change in spelling.
• put – put • hit – hit • let – let

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