The Past Continuous/Progressive Tense
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The Simple past tense
The Simple past tense
I – The form of the simple past tense
There are two types of forms for the simple past tense: REGULAR and IRREGULAR :
1 – Regular form : verb + ed
Watch → watched
Listen → listened
Play → played
Cry → cried
2 – Irregular form : has no rule (this means that we change all the spelling of the verb)
Be → was/were
Do → did
Have → had
Speak → spoke
Watch → watched
Listen → listened
Play → played
Cry → cried
2 – Irregular form : has no rule (this means that we change all the spelling of the verb)
Be → was/were
Do → did
Have → had
Speak → spoke
| Regular verbs | ||
| Affirmative | Negative (Didn’t = did not) | Interrogative |
| I watched You watched He watched She watched It watched We watched You watched They watched | I didn’t watch You didn’t watch He didn’t watch She didn’t watch It didn’t watch We didn’t watch You didn’t watch They didn’t watch | Did I watch? Did you watch? Did he watch? Did she watch? Did it watch? Did we watch? Did you watch? Did they watch? |
| Irregular verbs | ||
| Affirmative | Negative (Didn’t = did not) | Interrogative |
| I Spoke You Spoke He Spoke She Spoke It Spoke We Spoke You Spoke They Spoke | I didn’t speak You didn’t speak He didn’t speak She didn’t speak It didn’t speak We didn’t speak You didn’t speak They didn’t speak | Did I speak? Did you speak? Did he speak? Did she speak? Did I speak? Did it speak? Did we speak? Did you speak? Did they speak? |
| Spelling rules for the simple past tense (regular verbs) | |||
| verbs ending with – e | verbs ending with vowel + y | verbs ending with consonant+y | other forms |
| calculate – calculated combine – combined hope – hoped hate – hated | enjoy – enjoyed delay – delayed stay – stayed destroy – destroyed | study – studied copy – copied cry – cried try – tried | work – worked push – pushed greet – greeted ask – asked |
Other spelling rules
a- verbs ending with -l, the consonant is always doubled after a single vowel.
Examples:
travel – travelled.
cancel – cancelled
quarrel – quarrelled
Examples:
travel – travelled.
cancel – cancelled
quarrel – quarrelled
b – Verbs having one syllable and ending with a vowel + consonant, we double the consonant:
Examples
stop – stopped
hop – hopped
beg – begged
Examples
stop – stopped
hop – hopped
beg – begged
c – verbs with more syllables if the stress falls on the last syllable the we double the last consonant:
Examples
ad’mit – admitted
con’fer – conferred
kid’nap – kidnapped
Examples
ad’mit – admitted
con’fer – conferred
kid’nap – kidnapped
But If the stress is not on the last syllable, we do not double the consonant:
Example:
‘enter – entered
Example:
‘enter – entered
II – The use of the simple past tense
The Simple past tense is used :
- to talk about a completed action in the past.
I watched a movie yesterday.
I did some jogging last weekend.
I did some jogging last weekend.
- to talk about a series of completed actions in the past.
He came home, switched on TV and sat down.
- With time expressions like.
-yesterday
-last day, week, month, year…..
-in 2008
-…..ago
-when…..(used to talk about past action)
-The previous lesson, hour, day, week…..
-last day, week, month, year…..
-in 2008
-…..ago
-when…..(used to talk about past action)
-The previous lesson, hour, day, week…..
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the present tense
The present tense
The present tense is a verb form that is represented by the base form (for example, ‘eat’, ‘laugh’, ‘sit’ etc.) or by the third person singular –s (for example, ‘eats’, ‘laughs’, ‘sits’ etc. ).
The present tense in English grammar includes the simple present tense, present continuous (progressive) tense, present perfect tense and the present perfect continuous (progressive) tense.
The simple present tense
The simple present tense is used in the following cases:
1. To express a habitual action
I drink tea every morning.
My father takes a walk every evening.
2. To express general truths.
The sun rises in the east.
Honey is sweet.
3. To express a future event that is part of a fixed timetable or fixed programme.
The match starts at 9 o’clock.
The train leaves at 5.20.
4. To express an action that takes place in the present, usually in exclamatory sentences.
Here comes the bus!
There she goes!
5. As a substitute for simple past tense, in a vivid narrative or live reporting of sport events.
Argentina’s captain now has the ball.
Stanton now rushes forward and deals a heavy blow to Rustam.
Immediately the king hurries to the palace.
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