Talking about the Past
The past tense is used to describes an action or event that happened in the past. The most common way to form the past tense is to add ed to the end of a verb, or d if the verb ends in e. For example the past tense of walk is walked. There are many irregular verbs in English and they are covered in later lessons.
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| ask | asked | |
| decide | decided | |
| help | helped | |
| like | liked | |
| live | lived | |
| move | moved | |
| open | opened | |
| show | showed | |
| talk | talked | |
| want | wanted |
Examples
She talked about her vacation.
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He closed the door.
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We hoped for the best.
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The clouds drifted away.
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