Form and use the regular past tense

Key Notes:

🌈 Form and Use of the Regular Past Tense ⏳

What is the Regular Past Tense?

The regular past tense shows that an action happened in the past ✅.

It is called “regular” because we add -ed to the base form of most verbs.

Examples:

• play → played 🎾
• jump → jumped 🤾
• talk → talked 🗣️

Rules for Forming the Regular Past Tense 📝

1. Most verbs: just add -ed

• walk → walked 🚶
• clean → cleaned 🧹

2. Verbs ending in ‘e’: just add -d

• love → loved ❤️
• bake → baked 🍰

3. Verbs ending in a consonant + y: change y → i and add -ed

• try → tried 💪
• carry → carried 👜

4. Verbs ending in vowel + y: just add -ed

• play → played 🎮
• enjoy → enjoyed 😄

5. Doubling the final consonant (for short vowels + single consonant)

• stop → stopped ✋
• hop → hopped 🐇

Using the Regular Past Tense in Sentences ✨

Affirmative Sentences ✅: Subject + Verb(-ed) + Object

• I played football yesterday. ⚽
• She cleaned her room last night. 🧼

Negative Sentences ❌: Subject + did not (didn’t) + base verb

• I did not play football yesterday. 🚫⚽
• They didn’t clean their room. 🧽

Questions ❓: Did + Subject + Base Verb?

• Did you play football yesterday? ⚽
• Did she clean her room? 🧹

Time Words Often Used with Past Tense ⏰

• yesterday 🗓️
• last night 🌙
• last week 📅
• ago ⏳
• in 2020 📆

Examples:

• I visited my grandma last week. 👵💐
• They watched a movie yesterday. 🎬

Tips to Remember 💡

• Regular past tense = mostly verb + ed.
• Watch out for y → i and double consonants.
• Use did + base verb for negatives and questions.
• Look for time words to know if the past tense is needed.

🌟 Fun Practice Activity

Fill in the blanks with the correct past tense form:

1. I _______ (play) cricket yesterday. 🏏
2. She _______ (try) a new recipe. 🍳
3. We _______ (visit) the museum last week. 🖼️
4. He _______ (stop) running when it started raining. 🌧️

✅ Answers: played, tried, visited, stopped