By Mr. Seng Muny
In this lesson, you will learn:
- Examples
- Forms
- Verbs: Past Simple (Regular and Irregular)
- ED Spelling
- ED Pronunciation
- Uses
- Time markers
Examples
Thida called her parents yesterday.
We didn’t have class on Saturday last week.
This morning I needed to wait for ten minutes for the doctor.
My family visited Angkor Wat three years ago.
We went their on Friday. We came back on Sunday.
Forms
Positive: Subject + verb past simple + ….
Negative: Subject + did + not + verb base + ….
Questions: (Wh-) Did + subject + verb base + …?
Yes, subject + did.
No, subject + didn’t.
Note: did not => didn’t
Verbs: Past Simple
Regular: + ED
Walk => walked
Phone => phoned
study => studied
Play => played
translate => translated
Irregular: NOT ED
Go => went
Pay => paid
come => came
Cut => cut
Read => read
ED Spelling
* -e : add D: live => lived like => liked
* CVC: add final C +ED: stop => stopped plan => planned
refer => referred admit => admitted
offer => offered happen => happened
* Verbs that end in a consonant and Y, Y is changed to I and ED follows.
Study => studied
* The rest of verbs take ED: walk => walked phone => phoned
ED Pronunciation
ED = /id/
1. -t: wanted, visited 2. –d: reminded, responded, commanded
ED = /t/
1. -p: helped; 2. –k: walked; 3. /f/: sniffed, laughed;
4. –sh: washed; 5 –ch: watched 6. /s/: kissed, danced, fixed,
ED = /d/
None the above
Uses
Actions happened and ended at specific time or duration in the past
- I went to the market yesterday.
- My family lived in Takmau for two years from 2004 to 2005.
Past habits
- I liked to play kites when I was young.
- Sothea liked to play toys ten years ago, but now he likes to play with his computer.
Past actions that happened after one another.
- Yesterday I went to school. I worked, had lunch, and drank some coffee.
Time Markers
Yesterday, last week/month/year/….
Two/three minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years/…. ago
Thank you. Drop me your questions, and I will try to look for answers for you.
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