1. I flew to London yesterdayflew I’m exhausted !

2.  We use the Simple past to express that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past.  Both the interrogative and the negative form include the auxiliary verb DID (e.g. Did you fly to London?).g.  When we use the auxiliary verb DID, the verb is conjugated in present (e.g. I didn’t play football last weekend)last weekend

3.  The affirmative form: + + Example: They + gazed up + at the airplanegazed up  The question form: + + + Example: Did +you + call me + this morning?this morning? Subject Verb (Simple past) Complement DidSubject Verb (Present) Complement

4.  The negative form: + + + Example: We + didn’t + go + to Cartagena Negative Idid not (didn’t) Youdid not (didn’t) She/he /it did not (didn’t) Wedid not (didn’t) Theydid not (didn’t) SubjectDidn’t Verb (Present) Complement

5.  The English language has both regular and irregular verbs. Look at the next lists and click to see the translation of each verbbothnexttranslationeach  Accept Accept  Advise Advise  Alert Alert  Ask Ask  Ban Ban  Burn Burn  Call Call  Clear Clear  Command Command  Decide Decide  Delay Delay  Extend Extend  Fix Fix  Follow Follow  Gaze Gaze  Handle Handle  Identify Identify  Measure Measure  Offer Offer Some Regular Verbs  Fly Fly  Prove Prove  Put Put  Quit Quit  Ride Ride  Rise Rise  Run Run  Seek Seek  See See  Sink Sink  Sleep Sleep  Slide Slide  Take Take  Throw Throw  Thrust Thrust  Think Think  Understand Understand  Wear Wear  Wake Wake  Write Write  Win Win Some Irregular Verbs

6. o Regular verbs have always the same ending (-ed)alwayssameending o Click the verbs and look at the Preterit columncolumn  Accept Accept  Advise Advise  Alert Alert  Ask Ask  Ban Ban  Burn Burn  Call Call  Clear Clear  Command Command  Decide Decide  Delay Delay  Extend Extend  Fix Fix  Follow Follow  Gaze Gaze  Handle Handle  Identify Identify  Measure Measure  Offer Offer  Prove Prove  Put Put Regular Verbs

7. o Click the verbs and look at the preterit columncolumn  Fly Fly  Quit Quit  Ride Ride  Rise Rise  Run Run  Seek Seek  See See  Sink Sink  Sleep Sleep  Slide Slide  Take Take  Throw Throw  Thrust Thrust  Think Think  Understand Understand  Wear Wear  Wake Wake  Write Write  Win Win

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