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Mastering Past Simple: Affirmative, Negative, and Questions in English Grammar

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the past simple tense in English, focusing on its affirmative, negative, and question forms. Learn how to conjugate regular and irregular verbs, with examples such as "I worked in the garden yesterday" and "I wrote a letter yesterday." Understand the usage of auxiliary verbs and practice forming sentences. Perfect for pre-intermediate learners, this resource helps you master past actions, events, and states effectively. Improve your grammar skills with useful tips and practice exercises.

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Mastering Past Simple: Affirmative, Negative, and Questions in English Grammar

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  1. GrammarPre-intermediate Past Simple

  2. Form • Affirmative -ed I workedin the garden yesterday. (regular) I wrote a letter yesterday.(irregular) • Note: I/we/you/they worked. He/she/it worked.

  3. Spelling • clean→ cleaned • dance → danced • stay → stayed • try → tried • study →studied • plan →planned • stop → stopped

  4. Negative • Note: auxiliary verb - past! do – did – done I did not work(didn’twork) in thegardenyesterday. He did not work (didn’twork) in thegardenyesterday. I did not write(didn’twrite) letteryesterday. He did not write(didn’twrite) letteryesterday.

  5. Question • Note: auxiliary verb - past! do – did – done Didyouwork in thegardenyesterday? Did he work in thegardenyesterday? Didyouwrite a letteryesterday? Did he write a letteryesterday? Wheredidyouwork? Whendidyouwrite a letter?

  6. Answer

  7. Usage • We use the past simple to talk aboutfinishedstates, events and actionsin the past. past presentfuture

  8. Examples • I visitedAthenstwoyearsago. • He wasbornon July 20, 1969. • Madam Curie lived in Paris and discoveredradiation. • Where did you golast weekend? • I played tennis on Sunday, but I didn’t win. • I didn’t watch television yesterday.

  9. Literatura • MURPHY, R. EssentialGrammar in Use. 3. vyd. Cambridge: CUP, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-67543-7. • CLARKE, S. MacmillanEnglishGrammar In ContextEssential. 1. vyd. Oxford: Macmillan Publisher Ltd, 2008. ISBN 978-1-5040-7049-2.

  10. Completethesentences open rainwant go happenclean 1) I ________my teeththreetimesyesterday. 2) Itwashot in theroom, so I _______thewindow. 3) Theaccident________last Sundayafternoon. 4) When I was a child, I ______to be a doctor. 5) Itis nice daytoday, butyesterdayit ________allday. 6) Last holiday I ________ to Roma.

  11. Writethe past formoftheverbs • catch → • begin → • hit → • leave → • eat → • buy →

  12. Děkuji za pozornost.

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