Worked/got/went etc. (past simple)

Worked/got/went etc. (past simple)

   March 10, 2019       barkha verma

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Worked/got/went etc. (past simple)

They watch television every evening.
They watched television yesterday evening.

Watched is the past simple:

I/we/you/they/he/she/it - watched

The past simple is often -ed (regular verbs). For examples:

Work - worked
Clean - cleaned
Start - started
Stay - stayed
Arrive - arrived
Dance - danced

• I clean my teeth every morning. This morning I cleaned my teeth.
• Terry worked in a bank from 1986 to 1993.
• Yesterday it rained all morning. It stopped at lunchtime.
• We enjoyed the party last night. We danced a lot and talked to a lot of people. the party finished at midnight.

Spelling:
Try - tried
Plan - planned
Copy - copied
Stop - stopped
Plan - planned

Some verbs are irregular. The past simple is not -ed. Here are some important irregular verbs:

Begin - began
Break - broke
Bring - brought
Build - built
Buy   - caught
Come  - came
Do    - did
Drink - drank
Eat   - ate
fall  - fell
find  - found
fly   - flew
forget- forgot
get   - fot
give  - gave
go    - went
have  - had
hear  - heard
know  - knew
leave - left
lose  - lost
make  - made
meet  - met
pay   - paid
put   - put
read  - read
ring  - rang
say   - said
see   - saw
sell  - sold
sit   - sat
sleep - slept
speak - spoke
stand - stood
take  - took
tell  - told
think - thought
win   - won
write - wrote

• I usually get up early but this morning I got up at 9.30.
• We did a lot of work yesterday.
• Caroline went to the cinema three times last week.
• Jim came into the room, took off his coat and sat down.