The document provides information about regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense. It defines regular verbs as those that form the past tense by adding "-ed" or "-d" to the base form. It lists common regular verb patterns. Irregular verbs are defined as those that do not follow a consistent pattern to form the past tense. Examples of irregular verbs that have different forms for the base, past, and past participle are provided. The uses, forms, and examples of questions and statements in the simple past tense are then outlined.

1. What did you do yesterday?
 Simple Past Tenses
 Regular verbs
Irregular Verbs
 Wh- and Yes/No question in past
tense
Be in Past Tense

2. CHECK IT OUT
Regular verbs is the verb form of the verb 2(past)
and verb 3 (past participle) adding with suffix -ed.

3. TALK SPILL PINCH
WANT
TALKED SPILLED PINCHED
WANTED

4. REGULAR VERBS
SPELLING RULES
To form the affirmative past tense of most regular
verbs:
 add –ed to the base form of the verb (wash-
washed).
 In the verb ends in –e, add –d (live-lived)
 In the verb ends in a consonant preceded by a
vowel, double the final consonant (stop-stopped)
 If the verb ends in –y preceded by a consonant,
omit the “y” and –ied (copy-copied)

5. REGULAR VERBS
V1 V2 V3
work worked worked
talk talked talked
chat chatted chatted
help helped helped
ask asked asked

6. CHECK IT OUT
Irregular verbs is the verb that form the verb 2
(past) and verb 3 (past participle) changed or
not changed at all. This verb does not require
adding -ed or -d at the end of words.

7. Cut Think
Take
Cut Thought
Took

8. Irregular Verb
Conditions
Base Form Past Tense
Past
Participle
Meaning
Base form, past
tense, &
participle same
let let let membiarkan
put put put meletakkan
read read read membaca
Base form, past
tense, &
participle
different
break broke broken mematahkan
forget forgot forgotten melupakan
go went gone pergi
Past tense &
participle same
have had had mempunyai
leave left left meninggalkan
meet met met bertemu
Base form &
participle same
come came come datang
run ran run berlari

9. SIMPLE PAST
TENSE
The Uses
used to express activities or events that happen at specific
time in the past and also ended in the past.
Subject Singular :
He, She, It using was
Subject Plural :
You, We, They using were

10. The Forms
Positive
S+V2+O/
C
S+To be
(was/were)
+ O/C
Negative
S+didn’
t+V1+O
S+To be
(was/were)+
not+ O/C
Interrogative
Did+S+
V1+O?
To be
(was/were) +
S + O/C?

11. Expressions For Past Tense
Last Ago Yesterday
Last night 10 Minutes Ago Yesterday
Last Sunday An Hour Ago Yesterday Morning
Last Week Three Days Ago Yesterday
Afternoon
Last Weekend A Week Ago Yesterday Evening
Last Year A month Ago The day before
yesterday
Last Month A Year Ago

12. POSITIVE
STATEMENT
I worked in Mushrooms
Company two years ago
Last year He lived in that small
house
We studied in the Library
yesterday
My uncle watched television last
night
Last week I visited some friends
I called Roger at nine last night
NEGATIVE
STATEMENT
John did not go to school
yesterday, because he was sick
She didn’t feel much better after
her operation last week
I didn’t see him at the meeting
last night
Last year my sister didn’t pass her
final examination
I didn’t receive any letter last
Monday
He didn’t buy us books and pens
yesterday

13. INTERROGATIVE
a. Did she tell you about her trip last week?
- yes, she did.
- no, she didn’t
b. Did he phone you last night?
- yes, he did
- no, he didn’t
c. Did you enjoy the party last night?
- yes, they did.
- no, they didn’t
d. Did you enjoy the party last night?
- yes, I did
- no, I didn’t
e. Did you see Helen at the meeting last night?
- yes, I did
- no, I didn’t

14. Answers:
I graduated from….
He learned….at college
Yes, I did
No,I didn’t
QUESTIONS:
When did you graduate
from ....
What did he learn at
the college?
Did you attend some
courses last….?

15. PRACTICE
1. I Sometimes … my head under the water
when I swam in the ocean
A. Puts
B. Put

16. 2. My mother …. Me a bicycle yesterday
A. buyed
B. bought

17. 3. You …. Me a message last night
A. sent
B. will send

18. 4. Which one is the simple past form?
A. English was the most popular subject
B. English are the most popular subject

19. True
1
2
3
4

20. False
1
2
3
4

21. John Lennon 1.(be) ………. Born in 1940 in Liverpool,
England, where he 2.(grow up) …….. . As a teenager,
he 3.(meet) ……. Paul McCartney. And they 4.
(begin) ………. To write songs together. After several
years, they 5.(form) ………. A new group called the
Beatles, with George Harrison and Pate Best.
However, Best 6.(No-stay) …… in the group. Bingo
start 7.(join) …… the group in place of best. In 1964
the group 8.(perform) ……. Its first hit son “Love Me
Do”. ……. Next page

22. Write the correct form of the verb on
the lines. Use the Simple Past Tense
Between the years 1962 and 1968 the Beatles 9. (be)
….. The most famous group in the world. In 1969,
Lennon 10. (decide) …… to perform alone. He 11.
(write) …….. The song “Give Peace a Chance” and
12.(make) ….. Several albums alone. He also 13. (act)
…… in films. From that time on, he 14. (have) ……
many problem. For example, he 15. (leave) ……. His
wife, Yoko Ono, for a time. Finally, in 1983, Mark
David Chapman 16. (kill) …… Lennon. Lennon’s life
17. (end) …………, but his music lives on today.