Form and use the regular past tense
Key Notes:
🌟 Key Notes: Form and Use the Regular Past Tense ✨
| 🔹 What is Past Tense? |
👉 Past tense tells us about something that already happened 🕰️.
Example:
- I played football yesterday. ⚽
- She walked to school. 🚶♀️
| 🔹 How to Form Regular Past Tense? 🏗️ |
Most regular verbs form their past tense by adding -ed to the base verb.
✅ Examples:
- walk ➝ walked 🚶
- jump ➝ jumped 🤸
- clean ➝ cleaned 🧹
| 🔹 Spelling Rules ✍️ |
1️⃣ If a verb ends with -e, just add -d
- 👉 like ➝ liked 💖
- 👉 dance ➝ danced 💃
2️⃣ If a verb ends with a consonant + y, change y to i and add -ed
- 👉 cry ➝ cried 😢
- 👉 try ➝ tried 🏆
3️⃣ If a verb ends with one vowel + one consonant, double the consonant and add -ed
- 👉 hop ➝ hopped 🐇
- 👉 clap ➝ clapped 👏
| 🔹 Using Regular Past Tense in Sentences 📝 |
- Yesterday, I played with my friends. 👭
- We watched a movie last night. 🎬
- He cleaned his room. 🛏️
Let’s practice!🖊️
