Verb in the Past

Question 1

Verb Rules in the Past?

Answer 1

•Regular verbs add the ED at the end.
•Verbs ending in CVC (Consonant Verb Consonant) we double the last letter (stop/stopp).
•Verbs ending in Y and preceded by a vowel we add ED and ending in Y preceded by a consonant we replace the Y with i and add the ED.
•Irregular verbs have to be memorized.

Question 2

Questions in the Past?

Answer 2

•We need a particle and it is for all subjects (I/You/she/He/It/We/They/You):
DID
Did she like?

Question 3

Negative sentences?

Answer 3

•We add the NOT after the DID and we can abbreviate with DIDN’T:
I did not work
I didn’t work.

Question 4

Past tense of the verb TO BE?

Answer 4

•AM/IS = WAS & ARE = WERE
We say: I was, You/We/They were, He/She/It was.
•Questions, we just reversed the order in the sentence, no need for any particles, like this:
I was: Was I?
We were: Were we?
She was: Was she?
•Negative sentence, we just add the “NOT” in front of the verb:
I was NOT, We were NOT, He was NOT. And we can abbreviate “was not” as “WASN’T” and “were not” as “WEREN’T”.

Question 5

What about the past tense of the DO verb?

Answer 5

•In the past it becomes “DID”
We would say, “I did my homework.”
In the question, it would look like this: “Did you do your homework?”
Noting that the verb returned to its original form when we used the auxiliary particle “did” to form the question). And in the negative: “I didn’t do my homework.”