2. Is that story real? Would you like to have a super powers? Past tense vs the future (Grammar and reading practice about the past tenses mixed with present)
- How to formulate the simple past
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1. For regular verbs, add -ed to the root form of the verb (or just -d if the root form already ends in an e):
Play→Played
Type→Typed
Listen→Listened
Push→Pushed
Love→Loved
3. For other irregular verbs, including the verb to be, the simple past forms are more erratic:
See→Saw
Build→Built
Go→Went
Do→Did
Rise→Rose Am/Is/Are→Was/Were
2. For irregular verbs, things get more complicated. The simple past tense of some irregular verbs looks exactly like the root form:
Put→Put
Cut→Cut
Set→Set
Cost→Cost
Hit→Hit
4. The good news is that verbs in the simple past tense (except for the verb to be) don’t need to agree in number with their subjects.
Wolfgang polished his medal. The other winners polished their medals too.
