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Grammar
Pre-intermediate - Grammar - Unit 3

The Simple Past Tense

Uses
1. We use this tense when we want to talk about something at a particular time in the past:
(We usually add the time or date of the action.)

They arrived yesterday.

We bought this car Tve years ago.
I sold my car two years ago.
2. Describing events in the past:
They met in San Francisco .
The plane was two hours late.
Why did you leave so early?
3. Describing events that repeated in the past:
They went to the mountains every winter.
We played chess every monday.
We changed Zats very often.

Forming sentences in the Simple Past tense

Positive (afTrmative) statements

+ II FORM OF THE
VERB

PERSON

+ OBJECT

arrived

yesterday.

You

arrived

yesterday.

He / she / it

arrived

yesterday.

We / you / they

arrived

yesterday.

Forming questions

"Did"

+ PERSON

+ VERB (in(nitive) + OBJECT

Did

arrive

yesterday?

Did

you

arrive

yesterday?

Did

he/she/it

arrive

yesterday?

we/you/they arrive

yesterday?

Did

Forming negatives

PERSON

+ "did" + "not" + VERB (in(nitive) + OBJECT

did

not

go

to the cinema.

You

did

not

go

to the cinema.

He / she / it

did

not

go

to the cinema.

We / you / they

did

not

go

to the cinema.

Forming the second form of the verb

1. When we use regular verbs, we form the Past Simple by adding "ed / d" on the end.

arrive

- arrived

work

- worked

2. There are irregular verbs as well, and you have to remember the second form of these.

Time expressions
last night / week / month / year
a few hours / minutes / days / weeks ago
many hours / minutes / days / weeks ago
a long time ago
during the war
once

The Past Continuous Tense

Uses
1. We use the Past Continuous tense when we want to describe an action that was happening at a
particular time in the past:

Yesterday at 5 I was swimming.

Last summer we were living in London.
Last weekend we were trying to get to Brussels.
I was studying for my maths exam yesterday at 10.30.

2. We also use the Past Continuous tense when we want to describe an action that happened while
another was happening in the past:

While she was

sleeping the
telephone rang.
During the lesson
somebody knocked
at the door.
We were having a
great time when my
parents returned.
She was reading
when it started to
rain.

The Past Continuous tense is one tense further back in the past from the Present Continuous.

I am going
I am learning.
I am sleeping

- I was going.
- I was learning.
- I was sleeping.

Remember: the past tenses in English are not necessarily the same as the past tenses in your language. Think
of how you would say these in your language:

I was going.
I was studying.
I was sleeping.

Forming positive (afTrmative) sentences in the Past

Continuous tense
Forming positive (afTrmative) sentences

VERB
"BE"(in
the
correct
past
form)

PERSON

VERB+ing

+
OBJECT

was

going

to work

You

were

going

to work

He / she / it

was

going

to work

We / you / they

were

going

to work

Forming questions

VERB
"BE"

+ PERSON

+ VERB+ing

+
OBJECT

Was

going

to work

Were

you

going

to work

Was

he / she / it

going

to work

Were

we / you / they

going

to work

Forming negatives

PERSON

+ VERB "BE"

+
+ VERB
"not" +ing

+
OBJECT

Was

not

going

to work

You

Were

not

going

to work

He / she / it

Was

not

going

to work

We / you / they

Were

not

going

to work

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