Past Simple Tense

Regular verbs

• Verbs in past can be formed adding “ed” with most verbs
  • Example: Start => started
  • Example: Kill => killed
  • Example> Jump => jumped
• If the verb ends in “e” you only add “d”
  • Example: Agree => agreed
  • Example: Like => liked
  • Example> Escape => escaped
• If a verb ends in a vowel and a consonant, the consonant is usually doubled before -ed.
  • Example: Stop → stopped
  • Example: Plan → planned
• If a verb ends in consonant and -y, you take off the y and add -ied.
  • Example: Try → tried
  • Example: Carry → carried
• But if the word ends in a vowel and -y, you add -ed.
  • Example: play → played
  • Example: enjoy → enjoyed

Irregular verbs

There are a lot of verbs, but the most important is the verb to be