Презентация на тему Tenses Active Voice. The Past Simple Tense

worked
You discussed
They played
She danced
He liked
We smiled
It rained

V2 Irregular verbs
I

went
You ran
They spent
She began
He put
We understood
It caught

it /d/ after a voiced consonant
rubbed, filled, opened, listened
Read

it /t/ after an unvoiced consonant
worked, passed, watched
Note: verbs which end in the sounds /t/ /d/ have their past endings pronounced /id/
posted, added

–d when they end in –e
arrive/arrived; phone/phoned
A single

vowel followed by a single consonant doubles
Beg/begged; rub/rubbed
The same is in two-syllable words, when the second one is stressed
Prefer/preferred; refer/referred
When there is a consonant before –y change to –ied
cry/cried; deny/denied
BUT COMPARE delay/delayed

a moment ago
Past habit – Last year I went

to the swimming pool twice a week.
The immediate past – Did the telephone ring? (No past reference)

yesterday
Last summer/winter/January/night
7 years/ a moment/ a month ago
When I

was a boy/ till she arrived
In 1980, in September, on the 1st of November

met at the station yesterday

They didn’t met at the

station yesterday.

Did they met at the station yesterday?

meet

meet