Past simple (I slept well last night)
a) Study these examples:
Gladya : Look! It's raining again.
Cantika: 0h no, not again. It rained all day yesterday, too.
Rained is the past simple tense.
We use the past simple tense to talk about actions or situations in the past.
- I very much liked the party. (now, '' I don't '')
- My mother passed away in 2009.
- She passed her examination because she studied very hard.
- Yesterday I went to Jakarta to see my relatives.
- The school fee was very cheap when I was in High School.
b) Most of the past simple tense ends in -ed (regular verbs).
For example: invite > invited decide > decided stop > stopped work > worked
clean > cleaned start > started stay > stayed finish > finished
- We invited all friends to join the group.
- They decided to join with us.
- The officer stopped her on the way to work yesterday morning.
But many important verbs are irregular.
This means that the past simple does not (only) end in -ed.
For example:
go > went We all went to vote on Feb 15, 2017.
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