Talk about yesterday: the past simple — Learn & Practise

Tell a short story about something that already happened. Learn a few useful past forms and avoid adding the past twice.

Understand the idea

For a completed past event, regular verbs often take -ed and irregular verbs change form. After did or didn’t, use the base verb. Start with play/played, visit/visited, go/went and eat/ate. Add a time such as yesterday or last week. A time phrase makes your meaning easy to follow. Compare I went with I didn’t go and Did you go? The past form went appears in the positive statement, but did and didn’t take the base form go.

See a worked example

I played yesterday. / We went to the park. / She did not call.

A useful check

Didn’t already marks the past; use eat after it.

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