Grammar: The Past Simple
The Past Simple
A) Form
1. Regular verbs: Bare Infinitive + ed
Examples:
| PRESENT | PAST | |
| Watch | I work every day | I worked every day |
| Work | I watch television at the weekend | I watched television at the weekend |
| Play | I play football at school | I played football at school |
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2. Irregular verbs.
b) Use
1. To talk about things that happened in the past:
- I stayed in that hotel last week
- He worked all night and finished the project
2. To talk about the general past and about regular actions:
- We lived in Rome for a year when I was a child
- Our friends often visited us there
