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The Past Simple Tense: 1) See Saw Work Worked

The document discusses the past simple tense in English. It explains that irregular verbs are learned through memorization and lists common irregular verbs like "see", "have", "go", and "do". It also explains how regular verbs are formed by adding "-ed" to the base verb, and in some cases, other changes need to be made like doubling final consonants or changing the ending from "-e" to "-ed" or "-y" to "-ied".

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The Past Simple Tense: 1) See Saw Work Worked

The document discusses the past simple tense in English. It explains that irregular verbs are learned through memorization and lists common irregular verbs like "see", "have", "go", and "do". It also explains how regular verbs are formed by adding "-ed" to the base verb, and in some cases, other changes need to be made like doubling final consonants or changing the ending from "-e" to "-ed" or "-y" to "-ied".

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THE PAST SIMPLE TENSE

Irregular Verbs Regular Verbs

We learn them by VERB + ED:

(we memorize them) :


1) see SAW work worked
2) have HAD look looked
3) go WENT play played
4) do DID stay stayed

* AND SOMETIMES WE NEED TO


MAKE SOME CHANGES:

1)if a short verb ends in a


consonant+vowel+consonant, we double the
final consonant:

stopstopped
hughugged
dropdropped
2) if a verb ends in E, we add D:
livelived
arrivearrived
hatehated
3)if a verb ends in a consonant+Y, we
change Y to I and add ED:
studystudied
trytried
carrycarried

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