📘 Simple Past Tense
🌟 Introduction
In the story “The Boy Who Saved the Forest”, we can see that most sentences use the Simple Past Tense.
Simple Past Tense is used to talk about activities or events that happened in the past. The time of the action is finished (yesterday, last week, last year, once upon a time, etc.).
📖 Function of Simple Past Tense
Simple Past Tense is used to:
Talk about events in the past
Tell a story (narrative text)
Describe past experiences
Example from the story:
Arif lived near a small forest.
He saw some people cutting trees.
He talked to the village leader.
The villagers planted new trees.
📝 Formula of Simple Past Tense
1️⃣ Positive Sentence (+)
Subject + Verb 2 + Object
Example:
Arif lived in the village.
The villagers planted new trees.
2️⃣ Negative Sentence (–)
Subject + did not (didn’t) + Verb 1
Example:
Arif did not ignore the problem.
The villagers did not continue cutting trees.
3️⃣ Interrogative Sentence (?)
Did + Subject + Verb 1?
Example:
Did Arif talk to the leader?
Did the villagers plant new trees?
📚 Regular and Irregular Verbs
🔹 Regular Verbs (add -ed)
| Verb 1 | Verb 2 |
|---|---|
| Plant | Planted |
| Talk | Talked |
| Work | Worked |
| Help | Helped |
🔹 Irregular Verbs (change form)
| Verb 1 | Verb 2 |
|---|---|
| See | Saw |
| Go | Went |
| Feel | Felt |
| Live | Lived |
(Note: Live is regular because it adds -d.)
📝 Practice Questions
A. Choose the correct answer!
1. Arif _____ near the forest.
A. live
B. lives
C. lived
D. living
2. The villagers _____ new trees last week.
A. plant
B. planted
C. planting
D. plants
3. Arif _____ some people cutting trees.
A. see
B. saw
C. sees
D. seeing
4. The villagers did not _____ the trees again.
A. cut
B. cutted
C. cuts
D. cutting
5. _____ Arif talk to the village leader?
A. Do
B. Does
C. Did
D. Doing
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