Affirmative Negative Interrogative Simple Past Affirmative Negative Interrogative

Verb to be - Affirmative I was You were He was She was It was We were They were

Verb to be – Negative form I was not You were not He was not She was not It was not We were not They were not I wasn’t You weren’t He wasn’t She wasn’t It wasn’t We weren’t They weren’t

Verb to be – Interrogative form Was I? Were you? Was he? Was she? Was it? Were we? Were they?

Regular Verbs Verb + ED Want-ed wanted

paint painted

listen listened

want wanted

visit visited

look looked

check checked

walk walked

arrive arrived

Want Wanted

travel traveled

show showed

Irregular Verbs Memorize them!

Let’s go!

Go Went

make made

have had

Break Broke

Build Built

Buy Bought

Can Could

Catch Caught

Come Came

Cost Cost

Do Did

Drink Drank

Drive Drove

Eat Ate

Fall Fell

Feel Felt

Find Found

Fly Flew

Forget Forgot

Get Got

Give Gave

Know Knew

Leave Left

Lose Lost

Make Made

Meet Met

Pay Paid

Put Put

Read Read

Ring Rang

Run Ran

Say Said

See Saw

Send Sent

Sing Sang

Sit Sat

Sleep Slept

Speak Spoke

Spend Spent

Stand Stood

Swim Swam

Take Took

Tell Told

Think Thought

Throw Threw

Wake up Woke up

Wear Wore

Win Won

Write Wrote

The same form of the verb for all the persons. Affirmative Form I went You went He went She went It went We went They went The same form of the verb for all the persons. Very simple!

Auxiliary verb in the Simple Past Did

Used only in the Negative and Interrogative forms Did Used only in the Negative and Interrogative forms

Negative Form I didn’t go You didn’t go He didn’t go She didn’t go It didn’t go We didn’t go They didn’t go When the sentence is negative I use the auxiliary verb (didn’t) and the main verb is written in the base form again.

I ate the pizza. I didn’t eat the pizza.

He wrote a poem. He didn’t write a poem.

He didn’t eat the sandwich. He ate the sandwich. He didn’t eat the sandwich.

I didn’t send the e-mail. I sent the e-mail. I didn’t send the e-mail.

I lost my key. I didn’t lose my key.

I drove to Miami. I didn’t drive to Miami.

I made a chocolate cake yesterday. I didn’t make a chocolate cake yesterday.

Interrogative Form Did I go? Did you go? Did he go? Did she go? Did it go? Did we go? Did they go?

Did you go to the cinema yesterday? Yes, I did. No, I didn’t.

Did she see her friend at the party last weekend? Yes, she did. No, she didn’t.

Did they travel to New York last vacation? Yes, they did. No, they didn’t.

Did he paint the house last week? Yes, he did. No, he didn’t.

The End Thanks for watching. Adriana Pires