{"id":598,"date":"2018-10-26T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.orochinagi.com\/?page_id=598"},"modified":"2019-06-01T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:25:17","slug":"past-simple","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/grammar\/past-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Express an action that finished in the past.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Regular verbs<\/strong> are easy to conjugate, just add &#8220;ed&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>play\u2192 I played all night<\/p>\n<p>team\u00a0\u2192 they teamed up to defeat the boss<\/p>\n<p>The problem comes with <strong>irregular verbs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>do\u00a0 \u2192 I did my homework last night<\/p>\n<p>pay \u2192 I paid $20 for &#8216;early bird&#8217; registration<\/p>\n<p>buy \u2192 I bought the FGC yearbook<\/p>\n<p>sell\u00a0 \u2192 I sold my stick<\/p>\n<p>take\u00a0\u2192 I took the train<\/p>\n<p>catch\u00a0\u2192 I caught the train (I nearly missed it)<\/p>\n<p>post\u00a0\u2192 I posted a photo of my food at the restaurant<\/p>\n<p>study\u00a0 \u2192 I studied the tech<\/p>\n<p>won\u00a0 \u2192 she won the match<\/p>\n<p><em>Generally<\/em>, irregular verbs ending in<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>-y\u00a0 \u2192 ied\u00a0 e.g. try\u00a0 \u2192\u00a0 tried<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Negative form<\/h5>\n<p>subject +\u00a0<strong>didn&#8217;t<\/strong> + [<strong>infinitive<\/strong> <em>without<\/em> to]<\/p>\n<p>o: I didn&#8217;t play anything yesterday<\/p>\n<p>x: I didn&#8217;t played<\/p>\n<p>I<strong> didn&#8217;t go<\/strong> to the event<\/p>\n<h5>Question form<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Did<\/strong>\u00a0+ subject + [<strong>infinitive<\/strong> <em>without<\/em> to]<\/p>\n<p>Q. <strong>Did <\/strong>you <strong>eat<\/strong> the pizza?<\/p>\n<p>A. Yes, I did \/ No I didn&#8217;t \/ Yes, I ate all of it, and your ice cream too.<\/p>\n<p>Q. <strong>Did <\/strong>Ralf <strong>know<\/strong> about this?<\/p>\n<p>A. Are you stupid? Of course he did!<\/p>\n<p>Question form II<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\/When\/How<\/strong> etc + <strong>did<\/strong>\u00a0+ subject + [<strong>infinitive<\/strong> <em>without<\/em> to]<\/p>\n<p>Q. <strong>When<\/strong> <strong>did<\/strong> you <strong>arrive<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>A. (I arrived at) around eleven.<\/p>\n<p>Q. What did you do last weekend?<\/p>\n<p>A. I went to the cinema, hung out with friends, chilled on the sofa, ate crisps.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful with &#8220;<strong>to be&#8221;, <\/strong>the past is<strong>\u00a0&#8220;was&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Q. Was she on the stream<\/p>\n<p>A. Yes, she was there.<\/p>\n<p>Q. Where were you born?<\/p>\n<p>A. I was born in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><button><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orochinagi.com\/english\/exam\/index.php\/quiz\/quiz_detail\/3\/Past+Simple\"><span style=\"color: white;\">Test me!<\/span><\/a><\/button><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Express an action that finished in the past.\u00a0\u00a0 Regular verbs are easy to conjugate, just add &#8220;ed&#8221;: play\u2192 I played all night team\u00a0\u2192 they teamed up to defeat the boss The problem comes with irregular verbs: do\u00a0 \u2192 I did my homework last night pay \u2192 I paid $20 for &#8216;early bird&#8217; registration buy \u2192 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/grammar\/past-simple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Past Simple&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":510,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-598","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/598\/revisions\/1339"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}