Past Simple with verb REGULAR VERB (VERB –ED) AND IRREGULAR VERB (VERB –IR)

What is past?

It is an overtime. When we did something in the past, we say it is a past action or a past activity. A past action is an over action that we have already done and we finished it in the past too. This means that we stop doing it now.

When people talk about their past activities, they always use the verbs that end in “ed” or they use the irregular verbs.

 They are sometimes called the verb two. But in grammatical name, people called them the past simple verbs. People add ed to the end of the verbs and use them when they talk about their past actions. In figure1, the picture is about how English speakers add the –ed when they write or speak about their past. These verbs are called the ed verbs. In order to add the –ed, we have some rules. You can ask your teacher for more information about this.

What are the verbs that do not end in –ed called? They are called the the irregular verbs, past simple verbs or the verb two. People use all these verbs without adding –ed because they have their own forms in the second column of the irregular verb table. In figure 2, you can take a note of the changes from the basic form (present) of the verbs to the second column. The first column is called infinitive and sometimes it is called the basic verb form. You should have known by now how to call the second column. We do not have rules of the changes between the two verb forms. What you have to do is to learn them by heart. 

Written by : T-Sreng Pagna, EFL Primary Teacher