Making sentences in the simple past using regular verbs

In this lesson, we will learn how to

• Making sentences in the simple past using regular verbs

Regular Verbs are those verbs whose past form usually end in '–ed'.

For example:Change Changed Watch WatchedWe use the same past form for all subjects in the simple past tense.
For example:
I walked, He walked, She walked, I played,
He played, She Played, They played

We add ‘d’ to verbs ending in ‘e’ to form the simple past form.

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Dance Danced Agree Agreed Bake Baked Change Changed Like Liked Live Lived Hate Hated

We add ‘ied’ to verbs ending in ‘consonants + y’ to form the simple past form.

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Cry Cried Marry Married Copy Copied Fry Fried Worry WorriedWe don’t follow this rule for words ending with ‘vowel + y’ like pay, play, obey, destroy etc.

We add ‘ed’ to other regular verbs to form the simple past.

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Talk Talked Play Played Walk Walked Watch Watched Listen Listened Paint Painted Park Parked

Here is a list of commonly used regular verbs

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Accept Accepted Achieve Achieved Add Added Admire Admired Admit Admitted Adopt Adopted Advise Advised Agree Agreed Allow Allowed AnnounceAnnounced Appreciate Appreciated

Here is a list of commonly used regular verbs

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Bake Baked Beg Begged Behave Behaved Boil Boiled Borrow Borrowed Brush Brushed Bury Buried Call Called Challenge Challenged Change Changed CheatCheated

Here is a list of commonly used regular verbs

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Compare Compared Complain Complained Confess Confessed Construct Constructed Control Controlled Copy Copied Count Counted Create Created Cry CriedCycle Cycled Damage Damaged Dance Danced Deliver Delivered

Here is a list of commonly used regular verbs

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Employ Employed Encourage Encouraged Enjoy Enjoyed Establish Established Estimate Estimated Exercise Exercised Expand Expanded Explain Explained FryFried Gather Gathered Greet Greeted Guess Guessed Harass Harassed

Here is a list of commonly used regular verbs

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Interrupt Interrupted Introduce Introduced Irritate Irritated Joke Joked Jump Jumped Kick Kicked Kill Killed kiss Kissed Laugh Laughed Lie Lied Like LikedListen Listened Love Loved Measure Measured Move Moved

Here is a list of commonly used regular verbs

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Need Needed Obey Obeyed Offend Offended Offer Offered Open Opened Paint Painted Park Parked Phone Phoned Pick Picked Play Played Pray Prayed PrintPrinted Pull Pulled Punch Punched Punish Punished

Here is a list of commonly used regular verbs

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Question Questioned Race Raced Relax Relaxed Remember Remembered Reply Replied Retire Retired Return Returned Rub Rubbed Scold Scolded SelectSelected Smoke Smoked Snore Snored Stare Stared Study Studied Talk Talked

Here is a list of commonly used regular verbs

BASE FORM SIMPLE PAST Travel Travelled Trouble Troubled Type Typed Use Used Visit Visited Wait Waited Walk Walked Want Wanted Warn Warned Wink Winked Worry Worried YellYelled

Question and Answers

• We _____________ football last evening.
•  play
•  playd
•  played

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• My mother ___________ the vegetables yesterday.
•  fry
•  fried
•  fryd

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• Mohan ____________ with his brother last month.
•  talk
•  talked
•  talks

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• I _________ the news last night.
•  watch
•  watched
•  watches

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• He _____________ his clothes before going to the party.
•  changed
•  changied
•  change

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• We __________ at the party last night.
•  danced
•  dance
•  danceied

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• I _____________ my homework yesterday.
•  finished
•  finishied
•  finisheed

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• We ______________ ourselves at the picnic.
•  enjoyed
•  enjoyied
•  enjoy

Thank you

NOW RE-TEST YOUR CONCEPT
BEST OF LUCK!!