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English Year 5B Unit 6 Sport

5. Karim and Ming Hong (were, weren’t) at the swimming pool because it (was, wasn’t)
closed for the day.
6. Yesterday, the f eld (was, were) very muddy after the heavy downpour.

Past Simple: Aff rmative

We use the simple past tense to talk about an action or an event that happened at a
specif c time in the past.
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Subject Verb Complement
I competed in a volleyball match.

He/ She/ It jumped over all the hurdles.
You/ We/ They ran the 1500-metre race.

Note: A complement is a word or a phrase that completes the meaning of a sentence.

Regular/Irregular Verbs

• The spelling rules for the simple past tense of regular verbs are as follows:

Rules Examples
Most verbs, add -ed awarded, collected, painted
Verbs ending in -e, add -d agreed, believed, decided
Verbs ending in vowel + consonant, double clap − clapped, f t − f tted,
the consonant and add -ed hug − hugged

Verbs ending in consonant + -y, change -y cry – cried, fry – fried, worry – worried
to -i and add -ed

• The simple past tense of irregular verbs is not formed in the same way and they are
spelt differently. Some irregular verbs remain unchanged.
e.g. beat – beat, do − did, find − found, hit – hit, leave – left, rise – rose

C Fill in the simple past tense of the verbs in the boxes.

Base form 1. shout 2. score 3. win 4. f ght

Past tense

Verb 5. feel 6. run 7. save 8. pay

Past tense

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