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In this class, you will learn how to use the
past simple tense.
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This is one of the most exciting and important
tenses in our series of English verb tenses.
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Why?
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Because we use this tense so often to talk
about all kinds of things.
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For example, you can use this tense to tell
someone what you did yesterday.
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You can also use this tense to tell somebody
what happened in the world 500 years ago.
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So, whatever you're trying to describe that
happened before now, you can use the past
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simple tense.
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So, are you with me?
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Are you ready to learn this tense?
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Let's get started.
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So, you see here on the board, I've shown
a timeline.
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Here, we see "now", okay?
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And everything before now is in the past.
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So, when we talk about the past simple tense,
we're talking about a time that is before
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now or in the past.
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But past simple specifically talks about something
that happened in the past and it's finished
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and it's over, okay?
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We can talk about an action, or an event,
or a situation that started and ended in the
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past, okay?
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And that's shown here by these little Xs,
these things happened before, okay?
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So, now let's look at a little sample of what
this tense sounds like when we actually use
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it with a basic verb, the verb "to work".
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So, in some ways, this is so easy because
when we use the past simple tense with these
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- all of these different subjects, right,
you just have to learn one word.
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So, for example, if our base verb is "to work",
in the past we just say "worked".
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What did we do?
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We added "-ed".
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So, say it after me: I worked.
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You worked.
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We worked.
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They worked.
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He worked.
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She worked, and it worked.
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That's it!
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You just used the past simple tense.
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Good for you.
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Now, let's look at when we use the past simple
tense, okay?
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So, we can use it with the time expression
or without a time expression.
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What do I mean by that?
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Let's see.
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"Brian called last week."
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So, when we say "last week", right, that's
a time expression.
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It's a word that tells us about time, like
yesterday, last month, last year, okay, five
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years ago, these are all time expressions.
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So, of course, you can use a time expression
with the past tense.
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What's the past tense here?
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This word: called.
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But you could also use the past simple tense
without a time expression.
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So, you can simply say "I cooked dinner.",
okay?
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And as soon as I use this word "cooked", we
know that we're talking about the past.
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Next, we can use the past simple tense to
talk about the recent past or the distant
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past.
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What do I mean by that?
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The recent past means something that just
happened a short time ago, and the distant
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past means something that happened a long
time ago.
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Let's look at some examples.
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"We visited her yesterday."
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Okay, yesterday is not very long ago, so we
could use it with the past simple.
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We could also use the past simple to talk
about something that happened way back: "She
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lived in London a long time ago.", alright?
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So, it doesn't matter, we can use it in all
these cases.
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Next, we can use one verb, or we can use many
verbs in the sentence, it doesn't matter.
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Usually, they will all be in the past simple.
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For example, we can use it for one action:
"She talked to her manager.", right?
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What's the verb here?
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Talked.
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Or we can use it for many actions, in one
sentence even: "They invited their friends,
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ordered pizza, and watched the game.", okay?
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So here, we have three verbs.
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Doesn't matter, you can have as many verbs
as you need to and it's not a problem.
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Most of the time, once you start in the past
simple, you're going to stay in that tense
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though, okay?
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And here, we have the other verbs in our examples.
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So, these are the main situations in which
you can use freely and easily the past simple
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tense.
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Now, let's look at how we form the past simple
tense.
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So, the first thing you have to remember when
you're working with this tense, is that in
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English, there are two kinds of verbs: regular
verbs and irregular verbs.
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How do we know which is which?
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Well, it's kind of a little tricky, but the
regular verbs are the ones that, in the past
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tense, they just have "-ed" or "-d", they
end like that.
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For example: work becomes worked.
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Clean becomes cleaned.
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Watch becomes watched, right?
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So, in all those cases, we see that there
is a "-ed", this is the most common ending,
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we will see later there are a few other ways
that we can do it, but usually we add "-ed",
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but in the irregular verbs, that doesn't happen.
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We don't have a past tense form which has
"-ed".
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In the irregular cases, sometimes the verb
changes a little bit and sometimes it changes
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completely.
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You probably already have heard many of these
words, though, so you probably do know them,
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so let's look at the verb "go".
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In the past, it becomes "went".
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Completely different.
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See becomes saw.
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I see today, I saw yesterday.
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Buy becomes bought.
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So, those are just some examples of the irregular
ones, okay, there are many more and we're
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going to look at exactly how that works a
little bit later, but for now, let's start
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with the regular verbs, okay, and I'll show
you exactly what to do and how to use them
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in a positive sentence, in a negative sentence,
and in a question.
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So, we already looked a little bit at the
positive or affirmative sentence, and we saw
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that all we do is we take the base form of
our verb, so let's say our base verb here
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is the verb "to work", right?
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This is the base form before we make any changes
to it.
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So, when we put it into the past simple tense,
in this case, it's a regular verb, so we just
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add "-ed", and we can use that same verb for
all of the subjects, right?
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You remember that from the beginning?
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I worked, you worked, we worked, they worked,
he worked, she worked, it worked, you don't
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have to change it.
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This is a lot easier, actually, in English
than in many other languages where there are
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different forms for every subject, so sometimes
English is actually easier and might be easier
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than many other languages, okay?
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So, that's for the positive sentence.
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Now, let's look at what happens when we make
it negative, make a negative sentence, so
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then we say, "I didn't work.".
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So, what happens here?
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Here, you have to use a helping verb, which
is the verb "do", in the past "did", and negative,
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"didn't".
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Didn't is the short form that we usually use
in conversation.
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We say, "I didn't work.", but what does it
stand for?
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Didn't is actually a short form, or a contraction,
of two words: did not.
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So, you could say "We did not work.", but
usually, if we're just speaking in regular
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conversation, we just say "We didn't work.".
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Say it after me: We didn't work.
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It's a little bit tricky to get it out of
your mouth, but if you practice it, you'll
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get it, alright?
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Next, what happens when we ask a question?
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We have to use that same helping verb again,
this time the order changes though, okay?
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So, we put "did" first.
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Did I work?
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Did you work?
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Did we work?
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Did they work?
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Did he work?
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Did she work?
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Did it work?
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Okay.
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Now, did you realize something?
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Here, we had to change the verb, right?
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In the positive sentence, the verb changed,
we added that "-ed" and we said, "They worked.",
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but here, what happened?
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We came back to the base form of the verb,
right?
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We just said, "They didn't work.", and what
happened with the question?
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We came back to the base form of the verb,
we said "Did they work?"
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So, the only place where you really need to
change the verb at all, the regular verb,
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is here in a positive or affirmative sentence,
okay?
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Now remember that when you're asking questions,
first of all, this is just like a regular
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question, right?
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"Did they work yesterday?", for example.
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You could also ask what's called a negative
question.
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You could say something like "Didn't they
work yesterday?
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I thought so."
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Didn't you work yesterday?
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Okay?
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It's possible, okay?
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Or, you could ask a question that begins with
one of the question words.
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What are the question words again?
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Who, what, when, where, why, how, how much,
how many, right?
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So, then what happens?
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We put it before this.
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We have to keep the same structure and we
say, "Where did you work yesterday?"
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"When did they work?"
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"Why did he work?", okay?
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So, just put the question word, if you have
one, before "did", but we need the word "did"
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to form the question.
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So, this is the entire structure of the past
simple tense for regular verbs.
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Now, let's look at some of the spelling changes
we need to make when using the past simple
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tense.
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So, we already talked about the basic one,
which is that you take the verb, the base
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form of the verb, and you add "-ed".
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So here, we have some examples.
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Walk and walked.
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Cook and cooked, right?
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We just needed to add "-ed", and that works
for lots of the regular verbs, but there are
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always some exceptions, and here are a few
exceptions, okay?
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Sometimes, the verb itself, the base form
of the verb ends with an "e" already, then
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you don't need to add another "e", you just
add "d", so bake and baked.
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Use - used.
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We just added the "d" there.
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Next, if you have a verb that ends with a
"y" and has a consonant before it, okay, consonant
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means anything that's not a vowel.
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A vowel is A, E, I, O, U and a consonant is
anything else but that vowel, okay?
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So, if you have a word that ends with "y"
and has a consonant before it, then what you
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do is you cancel the "y", right, cancel the
"y" and add "-ied", like you see here: cried.
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Study - studied.
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Okay?
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Got that?
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And then we have one other pattern that you
might see very often, and that is when we
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double the last letter and then add "-ed".
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When do we do that?
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If you look at the base form of the verb,
from the end, okay, and you see that there
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is a consonant and a vowel and a consonant,
alright, from the end, then we usually double
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the last letter as in stop - stopped.
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Plan - planned.
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So, we doubled the last letter plus we added
the "-ed".
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So, these are some of the basic ways in which
you need to make spelling changes in the past
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simple tense, but the best way for you to
learn it is with these rules but also by just
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observing and paying attention every time
you're reading English.
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Pay attention to the spelling so that you
can master it.
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Now, let's talk about pronunciation.
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The pronunciation of past tense regular verbs
depends not on the spelling but on the sound
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of the base form of the verb at the end.
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So, if the base form of the verb has a voiced
sound, then we pronounce it with a "d".
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What does that mean, voiced sound?
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It means that when you say it, it has a little
bit of vibration, it creates some vibration
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or movement inside your vocal cords or your
throat.
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Consonants that do that, voiced consonants,
are N, G, M, R, V, vowels, and so on.
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There are more, okay?
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So, when you say these words, words that end
with that kind of voiced sound in the base
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form of the verb, like "learn", right?
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Charge, or play, call, right?
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When you have those sounds, then you're going
to say them with a "d".
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For example: learned, charged, played, called,
loved, seemed.
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Okay?
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Now, if the last sound of the base form of
the verb is unvoiced, then that means that
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there's no vibration or almost no vibration,
alright, when you say it.
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Consonants like those are K, S, P, F, also
words that end with a "CH" sound or "SH" sound,
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these are unvoiced, there's very little vibration,
so for these kind of words, we have a "t"
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or "tuh" sound at the end.
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For example: cooked, hoped, missed, washed,
laughed, watched, okay?
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Got that?
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Now, I know it's a little bit hard, like how
are you going to remember like voiced, unvoiced,
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vibration, no vibration, movement, no movement?
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So, it is technical.
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If you're very interested in the pronunciation
and you want to understand it perfectly, then
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please study that in detail and you will be
able to master it, okay?
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But otherwise, what you can do for these two
columns is to listen carefully and for all
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words, listen very carefully to good English
teachers, good English speakers, and pay attention
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to these words, okay?
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Now, one category that's easier is when the
base form of the verb ends with a "t" or a
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"d" sound.
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That means a "tuh" or "duh" sound.
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For example, want, right?
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We had the "t" sound, or need, we had the
"d" sound, in those cases, it's really easy.
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We just make the ending stronger and we say
like a "ed" sound.
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For example: wanted, needed, invited, decided,
started, ended.
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Okay?
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So, those are the basic rules for pronouncing
the regular past tense form of verbs.
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Now, let's practice what you've learned.
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So, first, we'll take some sentences that
are written in the present simple tense and
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we'll change them into sentences into the
past simple tense, okay?
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These are just positive sentences, not negative
and not questions.
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So, number one: I play tennis.
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In the past, what does that become?
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Played.
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I
played tennis, right?
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Good.
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Next: They study math.
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What does that become in the past?
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They - yes, studied.
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They studied math, and remember, the spelling
changed because it's a "y" here, becomes "-ied",
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good.
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Now, let's take some sentences which are already
in the past but they're positive sentences
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and change them to make them negative sentences.
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Number three: It rained becomes - what?
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What do we need?
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It didn't rain.
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Remember?
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We come back to the base form of the verb
here after the negative sentence, right?
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It didn't rain.
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Number four: John called.
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Make it negative: John didn't call.
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Again, we've come back to the base form of
the verb.
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You've got it.
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Okay, next, let's do a few questions, alright?
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Number five: Alex sent the email.
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So, you want to know if Alex did that, so
how would you start that question?
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You'd start with the word "Did", right?
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Did Alex send the email?
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Okay?
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Did Alex send?
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Here, it was "Alex sent", but we're coming
back to what?
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The base form of the verb, yes.
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Did Alex send the email, okay?
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Very good.
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And, of course, we had to start with "did",
that helping verb that we use with questions
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and with negative sentences.
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Alright.
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Number six: They stayed at the hotel.
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So, you want to ask a question now that starts
with "Where".
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What do you need to say after that?
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Where did they stay?
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Right?
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Because even if you add the question word,
you're still going to need to have that "did"
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and then your subject and then the verb in
the base form, okay, good.
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Number seven: She arrived at 6:00.
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Now, your question is asking about "When".
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When did she arrive?
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Okay?
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Again, we've come back to the base form of
the verb, okay?
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Very good.
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So, if you've got these right, that means
you've understood it, and if you haven't,
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we're going to practice a little bit more
as we go along.
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Now, let's look at how to form the past simple
tense with irregular verbs.
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So, once again, what's an irregular verb?
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That's a verb where the past tense form is
quite different or sometimes completely different
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from the regular base form of the verb.
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Let's look at an example here.
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Our base verb is going to be the verb "to
go", alright?
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This is our base verb.
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So, in the past, in a positive sentence, what
do we say?
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I went.
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Go becomes went.
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And again, it will be the same for all of
the subjects.
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I went, you went, we went, they went, he went,
she went, it went, right?
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So, go becomes went.
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How do you know that?
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You just have to learn it.
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You have to memorize it.
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You have to remember it, okay?
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There is no other way, really.
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Next, when we go to the negative sentence,
so, it's the same principle as we learned
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for the regular verbs.
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We're going to back to the base form of the
verb, let's see how it sounds.
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So, positive: I went.
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Negative: I didn't go.
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We've come back, right, to the base form of
the verb here.
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I didn't go.
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And again, didn't is a contraction or short
form for the words "did not", but again, in
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conversation, we're just going to say "didn't".
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So, I didn't go.
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Question, again, we need that helping verb
"did" in the negative and in the question,
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so the question becomes "Did you go?".
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Again, we're coming back to that base form
of the verb, okay?
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So, that part is the same.
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The principle is the same.
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The way that we form those verbs is the same
for regular and irregular, just with irregular,
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you have to learn what is that past tense
form for the verb, okay?
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But otherwise, it's really the same thing,
so once you've learned it for regular verbs,
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you can apply the same rules to work on these
verbs, okay?
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And remember the same style works here, so
if you need to add a question word: Where
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did you go?
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When did you go?
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How did you go?
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Why did you go?
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Right?
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We just put it just here, before the "did",
but we have to keep this order, alright?
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Now, just to show you that you've got it,
let's try with another irregular verb: buy.
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So, buy is the base form of the verb.
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What does it become in the past, have you
heard it?
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Every day, I buy a newspaper.
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Yesterday, I bought, okay?
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So, that word, for example, is spelled like
this: bought.
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I bought a newspaper.
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Yesterday, I didn't buy, right, we're coming
back to the base form of the verb, and Did
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you buy?
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Good.
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Let's try it with the verb sell.
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So, this is in the regular base form of the
verb.
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The past tense of sell is sold, okay?
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So, he sold his car.
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He didn't sell his car.
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Did he sell his car?
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Okay?
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So, when you can do that, right, the positive,
the negative, and the question, then you can
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express whatever you need to express in the
past continuous tense - sorry, the past simple
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tense, even with irregular verbs.
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Alright?
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Now, let's do some practice with the irregular
verbs.
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Now, I realize that you might not know all
the answers here unless you have heard these
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verbs before, okay?
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But don't worry, we'll do it together.
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If you know them, you can help me to fill
them out, and otherwise just follow along,
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alright?
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So, first we're going to take three verbs
in the present simple tense, their base form,
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and we're going to write them in the past
tense form, and these are all irregular verbs.
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So, let's take the verb "forget", and if we
want to put it into the past, what will it
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become?
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We _______ our tickets.
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We - do you know this word?
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Forgot - forgot our tickets.
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Okay?
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So, if you don't know it, this is a good time
to learn it.
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Also, learn what the word is, learn how to
pronounce it, learn how to spell it, spelling
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the irregular verbs also is something that
you need to learn.
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There are no 100% rules, but there are patterns
for the spelling and the verbs fall into some
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groups and you might see some patterns there
for spelling, but otherwise you kind of have
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to learn them as you go along, alright?
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So, number two: sleep.
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Let's change that into the past.
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She _______ early.
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The past tense of sleep is: She slept early.
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Say it after me: slept.
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Good.
00:28:09
Teach.
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He ________ science.
00:28:15
Past tense of teach - taught.
00:28:20
Taught.
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Say it after me: taught.
00:28:27
Good.
00:28:28
Now, here, we have the past tense form already
of these irregular verbs, but we're going
00:28:36
to do is we're going to take this sentence
a negative sentence, alright?
00:28:40
So, the verb is spoke.
00:28:44
Spoke is the past tense of which verb?
00:28:47
Speak, good.
00:28:50
So, now how do we make it negative here?
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They didn't speak Spanish, okay?
00:29:05
They spoke Spanish.
00:29:07
They didn't speak Spanish.
00:29:09
Remember, we're coming back always to the
base form of the verb.
00:29:14
Next: this is actually an interesting irregular
verb because it doesn't change.
00:29:21
The present tense form is hurt, the past tense
form is also hurt, and that's why it's an
00:29:28
irregular verb, because it doesn't change.
00:29:31
But it doesn't change in this particular way,
alright?
00:29:35
So, hurt, right, becomes - when it's negative
- It didn't hurt.
00:29:48
Okay.
00:29:50
Good.
00:29:52
Past tense of the verb: knew.
00:29:55
Knew is the past tense of which verb?
00:29:59
Know, okay?
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Know.
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So, how do we make this a negative sentence?
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I didn't know you were here.
00:30:15
I knew you were here.
00:30:16
I didn't know you were here.
00:30:19
It hurt.
00:30:20
It didn't hurt.
00:30:22
They spoke Spanish.
00:30:24
They didn't speak Spanish, okay?
00:30:26
You have to feel the rhythm, hear the rhythm,
say it aloud lots of times, and it will help
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you to remember the rules, alright?
00:30:34
Next, we're going to make some questions.
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Number seven: I met your manager at the meeting.
00:30:41
The past tense verb here is what?
00:30:43
Met, right?
00:30:45
I met your manager at the meeting.
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The question word we're using is "Where".
00:30:51
So, what do we say after that?
00:30:54
Where did you meet my manager?
00:31:02
Okay?
00:31:04
Again, question word, but after that, we still
have to keep the form for questions with "Did
00:31:12
you meet".
00:31:13
Where did you meet?
00:31:15
Number eight: She gave John $50.
00:31:19
So, what's the verb?
00:31:22
Gave, gave is the past tense of which verb?
00:31:28
Give, good.
00:31:30
So, how much did she give John?
00:31:38
Okay?
00:31:40
So, you see the pattern, you've learned it,
you've practiced it, and a little more practice
00:31:46
and you'll feel very comfortable making these
kind of changes from a positive sentence to
00:31:51
a negative sentence or a question, whatever
you need to say or write.
00:31:56
Next, let's look at how to give short answers
with the past simple tense using both the
00:32:03
regular verbs and irregular verbs, okay?
00:32:07
So, let's take the first one: Did Jack finish
his report?
00:32:11
So, if somebody asked you that, as we said
before, we don't usually give, like, a full
00:32:16
answer: Yes, Jack finished the report, you
just say something short.
00:32:22
So, you say, for example, "Yes, he did.",
if it's a positive answer and you know to
00:32:29
say that because the question starts with
"Did".
00:32:32
So, we say "Yes, he did.", and that cannot
be shortened.
00:32:38
No contraction allowed there, or "No, he didn't.",
alright?
00:32:44
And again, we get "didn't" from this "did",
alright?
00:32:47
It's coming from there, so the way that the
question is asked is the way you can answer.
00:32:53
That will help you.
00:32:54
The next question: Did the flight leave on
time?
00:32:59
"Yes, it did.", no contraction possible, or
"No, it didn't.", alright?
00:33:10
Again, you see that you can use the word from
the question to answer the question, alright?
00:33:18
And here's the last one for you and I'm just
going to give you one option here: Did you
00:33:24
understand the past simple?
00:33:27
So, I hope you're saying "Yes, I did.", right?
00:33:33
Here we go.
00:33:35
We're not even going to talk about the last
option because I'm positive that you have
00:33:40
learned quite a lot, alright?
00:33:42
So, this is how we give the short answers
in the past simple tense.
00:33:46
Now, we'll look at some common mistakes that
students make when using the past simple tense,
00:33:52
and you can help me to correct them.
00:33:55
So, sometimes the mistake is that the student
is using the wrong tense.
00:34:02
For example - these are all mistakes.
00:34:05
We're going to correct them together, but
first let's read what's wrong.
00:34:09
"I give him the laptop yesterday."
00:34:11
So, this sentence is about the past because
it says "yesterday", but the person used a
00:34:18
verb in the present tense: give.
00:34:21
So, how do we correct it?
00:34:24
We correct it by changing "give" to "gave".
00:34:30
I gave him the laptop yesterday.
00:34:32
So, you always need to make sure that you're
using the right tense.
00:34:38
Next, sometimes the verb form is wrong.
00:34:43
For example, "She writed the report."
00:34:46
So, let's suppose this is in the past, so
is that a word?
00:34:54
It's not correct, okay?
00:34:57
So, this is an irregular verb, the verb "write"
is irregular and the past tense of the verb
00:35:03
"write" is "wrote".
00:35:08
She wrote the report, alright?
00:35:10
So, sometimes, that's the mistake.
00:35:15
Let's look at a negative sentence: They didn't
called.
00:35:20
What mistake does the student make here?
00:35:24
Remember the rule?
00:35:25
Whenever we have a negative sentence, we come
back to using what?
00:35:30
The base form of the verb.
00:35:32
But this student forgot, so it should be "They
didn't call.", right?
00:35:39
Good.
00:35:40
Next: Did you had lunch?
00:35:44
Again, what happened?
00:35:48
The student forgot that you come back to the
base form of the verb.
00:35:53
So, it should be, even if the question, "Did
you have lunch?".
00:36:01
Let's say these again: She wrote the report.
00:36:05
They didn't call.
00:36:09
Did you have lunch?
00:36:10
Okay?
00:36:11
Good.
00:36:12
Sometimes the mistake is in spelling.
00:36:16
For example, this person wrote "He stoped
smoking."
00:36:22
So here, what did we need to do, do you remember
when we learned about the spelling?
00:36:28
This should be "He stopped smoking.", okay?
00:36:34
Because we had consonant-vowel-consonant for
"stop" and then we need to double the last
00:36:41
letter and add "-ed", alright?
00:36:43
Good.
00:36:44
And sometimes, the mistake is that the helping
verb "did" is forgotten.
00:36:51
For example, these are questions.
00:36:55
"You wake up early?"
00:36:57
Now, if someone said that, would the other
person understand?
00:37:01
Probably they would understand.
00:37:03
Is it correct English?
00:37:04
No, it's not.
00:37:06
So, let's fix it.
00:37:08
What do we need to do?
00:37:09
We need to add which word?
00:37:11
What's the helping verb that we use?
00:37:14
Did.
00:37:15
Where do we put it?
00:37:16
Here.
00:37:18
So we would say "Did you", okay?
00:37:20
Did you wake up early?
00:37:23
Here, "He speak to his boss?".
00:37:28
That's wrong, so how do we correct it?
00:37:32
Again, the helping verb has been forgotten,
so we say, "Did he speak to his boss?", alright?
00:37:41
So, these are some of the common mistakes
that people make using the past simple tense,
00:37:47
so be careful of your tense, your verb form,
your spelling, and make sure to use that helping
00:37:54
verb.
00:37:55
Just to review, you know that you have learned
the past simple tense properly and well when
00:38:01
you can do three things, right?
00:38:04
Make a positive sentence, a negative sentence,
and a question easily and quickly, and switch
00:38:10
back and forth without any uncertainty, okay?
00:38:14
When you can do it correctly and quickly and
confidently.
00:38:17
Let's look at some examples with the regular
verbs: She called.
00:38:24
She didn't call.
00:38:25
Did she call?
00:38:27
Right?
00:38:28
These kinds of sentences should come to you
easily now, alright?
00:38:32
The more you practice, they will.
00:38:34
Or, with an irregular verb, for example: They
paid.
00:38:39
Negative: They didn't pay.
00:38:43
And question: Did they pay?
00:38:47
Alright?
00:38:48
So, these were examples - these were my examples,
these were a few examples, but you have examples
00:38:54
all around you, all through your life, all
through your day, so one of the best things
00:38:59
you can do and an easy thing you can do to
improve your command of this and your understanding
00:39:07
of this past simple tense is to write.
00:39:10
Write like a little diary at the end of each
day.
00:39:13
Write the things that you did.
00:39:14
What did you do during the day?
00:39:16
Where did you go?
00:39:17
What did you do?
00:39:18
And this way, you will discover what you can
say and where you have difficulties.
00:39:24
And what you will also know is you'll be reviewing
your vocabulary, your grammar, everything
00:39:30
all at once.
00:39:31
First, write about yourself.
00:39:33
Later, when you can do that, and write about
your regular routine already, write about
00:39:38
other things.
00:39:39
Write about things other people are doing.
00:39:41
Write about what's happening at work.
00:39:43
Write about your favorite movie.
00:39:45
Write about something that's happening in
the news, okay?
00:39:49
But basically, for all of those purposes,
you can use the past simple tense.
00:39:54
Alright?
00:39:55
Now, remember, this is part of a series of
classes that we have, and the next class you
00:40:02
can go to after the past simple tense is the
past continuous tense.
00:40:08
So, make sure to move forward into the fullness
of all of these tenses.
00:40:14
So, eventually, you can express yourself very
well and effectively in English.
00:40:19
And, if you'd like a little more practice
on the past simple tense, then go to www.engvid.com
00:40:25
where you can do a quiz.
00:40:27
Thanks very much for watching, and I wish
you all the best with your English tenses.
00:40:32
Bye for now.
