Past Tense Review

Past tense is a grammatical form used to indicate that an action or event occurred in the past, before the present moment. It is one of the basic verb tenses in English and is used to describe actions that have already happened.

In English, verbs have different forms depending on the tense they’re being used in. To form the past tense, regular verbs typically add “-ed” to the base form of the verb. However, there are also irregular verbs that don’t follow this pattern and have unique past tense forms.

Here’s how past tense works for regular verbs:

1. Regular Verbs: These are verbs that follow the standard pattern of adding “-ed” to the base form to create the past tense.
   Base Form: talk
   Past Tense: talked
   Base Form: walk
   Past Tense: walked
   Base Form: play
   Past Tense: played
2. Irregular Verbs: These are verbs that don’t follow the regular pattern and have unique past tense forms that need to be memorised.
   Base Form: go
   Past Tense: went
   Base Form: eat
   Past Tense: ate
   Base Form: see
   Past Tense: saw

Here are some examples of past tense sentences:

1. She visited her grandparents last weekend.
2. They watched a movie yesterday.
3. He ate lunch at noon.
4. We studied for the exam all night.

It’s important to note that past tense is used not only to talk about actions that happened at a specific point in the past but also to describe habitual actions, ongoing actions, and conditions in the past.

Table of irregular verbs: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/table-of-irregular-verbs