Simple Past Tense : Unit 9, I watched/cleaned/went, etc. (Simple Past)

I     watch            television every night.
                                (simple present)

I     watched       television last night.
                                (simple past)

Watched is the simple past :

I/we/you/they
                                   watched      
         he/she/it

The simple past is often –ed. For example :

work=worked                   brush=brushed                 start=started
stay=stayed                       live=lives                             dance=danced

These verbs are regular verbs.

-          I brush my teeth every morning. This morning I brushed my teeth.

-          Lee worked in bank from 1989 to 1992

-          Yesterday it rained all morning. It stopped at noon.

-          We enjoyed the party last night. We danced a lot and talked to a lot of people.
the party ended at midnight.

Spelling :

                Study = Studied                                Worry = Worried
                Stop=stopped                   Plan=planned

Some verbs are irregular (not regular). For irregular verbs, the simple past is not –ed.
Here are some important irregular verbs (see also Appendixes 1 and 2) :

begin       began break       broke bring        brought buy          bought catch       caught come       came cost         cost do            did drink       drank eat           ate

fall               felt find             found fly                flew forget          forgot get               got give             gave go                went have            had hear            heard know           knew

leave           left lose             lost make          made meet           met pay              paid put              put read            read* ring             rang say              said see              saw

sell               sold sit                 sat sleep            slept speak           spoke stand           stook take              took tell                told think             thought win                won write             wrote

*The Past tense of read sounds like “red.”

-          I usually get up early, but this morning I got up at 09.30.

-          We did a lot of housework yesterday.

-          Ann went to the movies three times last week.

-          Mr.Wood came into the room, took off his coat, and sat down.