Making Sentences with Past Tense

The simple past is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now.  We can sentence with past tense to express completed action in the past e.g.

1. She washed her.
2. I saw a movie yesterday.

Used to express a series of completed actions.

• I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim

1. He arrived from the airport at 8:00, checked into the hotel at 9:00, and met the others at 10:00.

EVALUATION:  Underline the verbs in the following sentences.

1. I studied French when I was a child
2. They never went to school, they always skipped class
3. When I paid her one dollar, she answered my question.

ASSIGNMENT:  Explain the past tense form of a verb.

See also:

Introduction to Diphthongs

Literature | Drama Text Zunju & Uchenna by Pierce Meunier

Vocabulary Development | Prefixes

Making Sentences with Future Tense – Will and Shall

Contrasting Vowel /e/ and /Ʒ:/