INEB “AMERICA”
8th Grade
English Course
Mrs. Mariela Lucas
Guide No. 10
Instructions: Copy the following grammar in the
notebook, and make exercises of the book pages 39, 41, 42, 43.
The Simple
Past of Be.
·
Use the simple past of be to talk about states or
situation that are finished.
I was tired
last night
·
There are two forms of be in the simple past:
was and were
·
Use was
with I, he, she, it. Use were with you, we and they
I / He / She /
It was cold
You / We /
They were cold
·
In
informal writing and speaking, use the contractions wasn’t and weren’t in negative statements and short answers.
They weren’t at school.
Were they at school?
Yes they were. No they weren’t .
·
Use
past time phrases like yesterday, last night, and last month with simple past
statements with be.
I was at the movies last night.
We were in Mexico last month.
The Simple
Past, Regular Verbs
·
Use the simple past to talk about a complete action in
the past.
·
Past-time expression such as yesterday last month,
last night, and last week are frequently used with the simple past.
We enjoyed the
concert last night
·
Today, this morning and this afternoon can be used
with the simple past if they mean “before now”
I walked to school this morning
·
For negative statement in the simple past, used did not
(didn’t) + the base form of the
verb.
They
didn’t like the movie.
Regular
Verbs
·
To form the simple past of many regular verbs, add –ed to the base form of the main verb.
work = worked
play =
played
·
If the verb ends in a consonant + -y, replace –y with –i and add –ed.
carry
= carried
study
= studied
·
If the verb ends in –e add –d
arrive
= arrived
invite
= invited
·
If a one-syllable verb ends in a consonant, a vowel,
and a consonant (CVC), double the last consonant and add –ed
tap
= tapped
shrug = shrugged
IRREGULAR
VERBS
·
The simple past form of irregular verbs varies. You should memorize them.
Las night I went to my favorite restaurant.
She heard a noise.
There is a list of Irregular Verbs, you should to learn them. There are almost 200, but you only have
these. You can look in the dictionary
and look the list of verbs are.
1. be was were
2. begin began
3. bring brought
4. buy bought
5. catch caught
6. choose chose
7. come came
8. do did
9. drink drank
10. eat ate
11. fall fell
12. feel felt
13. find found
14. get got
15. give gave
16. go went
17. hate hate
17. have had
19. know knew
20. leave left
21. make made
22. read read
23. say said
24. see saw
25. sit sat
26. sink sank
27. sleep slept
28. speak spoke
29. take took
30. teach taught
31. tell told
32. think thought
33. win won
34. wear wear
35. write wrote
Negative Form
·
For negative statements in the simple past, use did (as the auxiliary like do/does in
present, but it is in past) not +
the base for of the verb.
They didn’t like the movie.
ü Notice
that the verb is in present, because the past is in the auxiliary.
YES/NO
QUESTIONS
·
The word order in Yes / No questions is:
Did + subject
+ the base form of a main +
complement
I
he
she
Did it work?
you
we
they
ü Notice
that the auxiliary Did is the same
for all the subject pronouns.
·
Use did or
didn’t in short answers.
Did she eat lunch? Yes,
she did.
Did they go to the sports complex? No, they didn’t
INFORMATION
QUESTIONS
·
In information questions about the subject, the word
order is: Question word + the simple past form
·
In other information question, the word order is:
Question word +
did + subject + the base form of a verb + complement
+ ?
Question word Did Subject Base form of the verb Complement
Where I
put my
phone ?
How
often you call her?
Who did he / she see ?
What it look like?
When we eat lunch?
Why they go to the park?
😱😱😨
ResponderEliminar😱😱😨
ResponderEliminar