Semestral UNI

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SEMESTRAL UNI

PAST SIMPLE I

Before you continue the lesson read the following passage and try to see how the verbs are formed and used.

REGULAR VERBS:
The verbs “lived, started, died” are regular past forms. The rule is the following:

Verb + ed

Examples:

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THE RULES OF THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE FORMS:

Here are the rules:

1. Regular verbs ending in a silent e take /- d/ in the simple past and past participle:
Example:
close = closed

2. Regular verbs ending in a vowel + y take /- ed/ in the simple past and past participle:
Example:
play = played

3. Regular verbs ending in a consonant + y take /- ied/ in the simple past and past participle (the y becomes an i followed by
/- ed/)
Example:
marry = married

4. All the other regular vebs take /- ed/ in the simple past and past participle.
Example:
visit = visited

SPECIAL CASES OF THE - ED FORMS:

Follow these rules when there is a consonant after a vowel (stop, ban, open, offer...)

• If there is a consonant after a stressed vowel at the end of the word, double the consonant
stop – stopped
ban - banned
swap - swapped

• If the vowel is not stressed, we do not double it:

open - opened (Here the stress is on’o’, not the ‘e’.)

offer - offered ( Here the stress is on ‘o’, not the ‘e’.)

In British English we double the last l even though the last vowel is not stressed. Here are some examples:

• travel - travelled
• cancel - cancelled
• level - levelled
• marvel - marvelled

IRREGULAR VERBS:

The verbs “was, wrote” are irregular past forms. “Was” is the simple past of “to be”; “wrote” is the simple past of “write”.

More on the simple past of “to be” here.

There is no rule for these verbs. You should learn them by heart.

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As you can see we can not predict the simple past forms of these verbs. They are irregular. You should learn them by heart.
Here is a list of irregular verbs.

THE FORMS OF THE SIMPLE PAST:

The Affirmative form of the simple past:

Examples:

• I played tennis with my friends yesterday.

• I finished lunch and I did my homework.

EXERCISES

1. The telephone ______ while you were out of the house. 6. I _____ I had all the answers correct.

A) rings A) thought
B) rang B) think
C) ringed C) thinks
D) ringing D) thinking
E) rung E) thinked

2. The girl _______ her multiplication tables. 7. The girl _______ her lunch box on the field trip.

A) knew A) bringed
B) knowed B) bringing
C) know C) brought
D) knowing D) bring
E) knews E) broughted

3. The day ________ with the bell ringing. 8. They _____ to the store last night.

A) begined A) go
B) begin B) went
C) beginning C) goes
D) begun D) goed
E) began E) going

4. The boy ________ a yellow shirt. 9. We _______ a war film last weekend.

A) wear A) watched
B) wearing B) played
C) wore C) spent
D) worn D) cooked
E) weared E) looked

5. I ______ my pencil and paper with me to class. 10. He _____ to Paris two weeks ago.

A) brings A) goes
B) brought B) go
C) bringed C) going
D) bringing D) went
E) broughted E) goed

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11. Her daughter ______ from the university last year.

A) read
B) graduated
C) started
D) played
E) visited

12. We ______ an English lesson this morning.

A) have
B) had
C) having
D) has
E) haved