Directions:
Read and understand this lesson.
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Learning the past tense is easy. There are regular verbs and irregular verbs. The past tense of regular verbs add 'ed' at the end of the word. |
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| Examples | play (present tense) | played (past tense) |
| I play soccer every day. (present) | ||
| Pablo played soccer yesterday. (past) | ||
| Examples | look |
looked |
| open |
opened | |
| walk |
walked | |
| talk |
talked | |
| sign | signed | |
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Irregular verbs are different and their past tense form needs to be learned with practice. |
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| Examples | eat (present tense) | ate (past tense) |
| I eat breakfast in the morning. (present) | ||
| I ate a good breakfast at school yesterday. (past) | ||
| Examples | buy |
bought |
| see |
saw | |
| sell |
sold | |
| think |
thought | |
| take | took | |
