Beginner Grammar

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Unit 10 — We had a good time!

Past Simple — positive, questions, negatives, time expressions

10.1 Past Simple positive

1 Regular verbs add -ed in the Past Simple.

📌 Note

Remember: Many common verbs are irregular.
go → went · see → saw · have → had

2 The form is the same for all persons.

Subject	Verb	Object
I / You / He/She/It / We / They	listened / went / had	to music. / to work. / lunch.

10.2 Past Simple questions and negatives

📌 Note

Present: do / does → Past: did
What time does he usually get up? → What time did he get up yesterday?

Questions with question words

Q. word	Auxiliary	Subject	Verb
Where	did	I / you / he/she/it / we / they	go?

Negative

Subject		Verb
I / You / He/She/It / We / They	didn't	go shopping.
		see the film.

Yes / No questions and short answers

Question	Yes	No
Did they play football?	Yes, they did.
Did you have a good time?		No, I didn't.

10.3 Past time expressions