The simple past tense

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The simple past tense is
used for a completed
action or past event.
What did you do
yesterday?

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yesterday last month last week
just now this morning this evening

two weeks ago earlier this year

These are some of the words that are use
to show past tense

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bake baked
dance danced

like liked
love loved
smile smiled
tie tied

1)By adding ‘d’ to the words ending

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clean cleaned
climb climbed
jump jumped
play played
watch watched
laugh laughed

2) By adding ‘ed’ to the verb

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burry burried
carry carried
cry cried
dry dried

fry fried
hurry hurried

3) By adding ‘ied’ to words ending with ‘y’
except when the ‘y’ follows a vowel.

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chop chopped
clap clapped
drop dropped
mop mopped
stop stopped
grab grabbed

4) By adding consonant + ‘ed’

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cut cut
spread spread

cost cost
shut shut
put put

5) Without any change
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buy bought
blow blew
catch caught
draw drew
eat ate
write wrote

6) By changing the whole verb

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* The simple past tense of ‘am’ and ‘is’ is
‘was’.

* The simple past tense of ‘are’ is ‘were’.
* ‘Was’ is used with ‘I’, ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’ and

singular nouns.
* ‘Were’ is used with ‘you’, ‘we’, ‘they’ and

plural nouns.

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Know your verbs!
- Regular Verbs -

Present Past Tense Present Past Tense
Tense Tense
walk pitched
play walked pitch camped
watch collected
study played camp
carry watched collect cooked
weigh opened
look studied cook locked
clean closed
pick carried open served
reach weighed lock happened
arranged
looked close

cleaned serve

picked happen

reached arrange

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Know your verbs!
- Irregular Verbs -

Present Past Tense Present Tense Past Tense
Tense
ate drink drank
eat wrote
run ran write
go went read read
hold
catch held hang hung
teach caught shut shut
buy drove
sell taught drive made
choose make led
take bought lead felt
feel thought
sold think
chose
took

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Verb ‘to be’, ‘to have’ and ‘to do’

Present Tense Past Tense

is was

are were

has had

have had

do did

does did

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Modals

Present Past

Tense Tense

can could

will would

shall should

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Know your tenses!
Present or Past?
• Last week, the boy scouts went for
a camping at the Madai Waterfall.
• I am doing the dishes in the kitchen.
• The scout master instructed the
boy scouts to clean up the camping
site.
• The girls were playing the congkak
when they heard the noise.
• He is a hardworking and honest boy.
• They are tired but they can do it.
• They were tired but they would go.

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Sentences Tenses
Past
Last week, the boy scouts went for a Present
camping at the Madai Waterfall. Past

I am doing the dishes in the kitchen. Past
Present
The scout master instructed the boy Present
scouts to clean up the camping site. Past

The girls were playing congkak when
they heard the noise.

He is a hardworking and honest boy.

They are tired but they can do it.

They were tired but they would go.

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Know your verbs!

Identify the verbs in the sentences below.

• Last week, the boy scouts went for a
camping at the Madai Waterfall.

• I am doing the dishes in the kitchen.
• The scout master instructed the boy

scouts to clean up the camping site.
• The girls were playing congkak when they

heard the noise.
• He is a hardworking and honest boy.
• They are tired but they can do it.
• They were tired but they would go.

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Know your subjects!

Identify the subjects in the sentences below.

• Last week, the boy scouts went for a
camping at the Madai Waterfall.

• I am doing the dishes in the kitchen.
• The scout master instructed the boy

scouts to clean up the camping site.
• The girls were playing congkak when they

heard the noise.
• He is a hardworking and honest boy.
• They are tired but they can do it.
• They were tired but they would go.

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Learn your sentence structures!

Subject Verb Wh
were camping at the
The boy waterfall
scouts was dirty
were many rubbish
The waterfall gave instructions

There cleaned the place
pitched the tents
The scout cooked dinner
master

They

The boys

Several
scouts

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