Essential Grammar in Use(Third Edition)--Past Unit11

worked / got / went etc. (past simple 一般过去式）

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A 

They watch television every morning.   (present simple)

They watched television yesterday evening.   (past simple)

watched is the past simple:

I / we / you / they / he / she / it

watched

B 

The past simple is often -ed (regular verbs). For example:

work  worked          dance  danced

clean   cleaned       stay  stayed

start  started           need  needed       

• I clean my teeth every morning. This morning I cleaned my teeth.
• Terry worked in a bank from 1996 to 2003.
• Yesterday it rained all morning. It stopped at lunchtime.
• We enjoyed the party last night. We danced a lot and talked to a lot of people. The party finished at midnight.

Spelling 

try  tried      study  studied      copy  copied

stop  stopped     plan  planned 

C 

Some verbs are irregular (= no regular). The past simple is not -ed. Here are some important irregular verbs:

begin  began  break      broke  bring       brought  build       built  buy         bought  catch      caught  come      came  do           did  drink       drank  eat          ate

fail  fell find     found fly       flew forget forgot get     got give    gave go      went have  had hear   heard  know  knew

leave  left  lose        lost  make      made  meet       met  pay         paid  put          put read        read(red) ring         rang  say         said  see         saw

sell  sold sit        sat sleep   slept speak  spoke stand   stood take     took tell       told think    thought win      won write    wrote

• I usually get up early, but this morning I got up at 9 o'clock.
• We did a lot of work yesterday.
• Caroline went to the cinema three times last week.
• James came into the room, took off his coat and sat  down.