The past perfect simple

‘It had taught him to love his own beauty.’ When we are talking about the past we use the past perfect simple to talk about things that had already happened at the time we are talking about. Look at…

Past simple - regular verbs

"MR TAYLOR DECIDED TO RENT THE HOUSE AND THANKED MR BENNETT FOR HIS HELP." We form the Past Simple of regular verbs by adding -ed to the verb. e.g. talk = talked, work = worked Some verbs end in…

The past simple

When Michelle got home after the basketball game, she wrote about it in her diary. Complete her diary with the past simple tense of the verbs in brackets. November 13 – Montego High (win) the…

Past simple exercises

Past simple. Regular verbs

Past simple passsive

‘Romeo was banished to Mantua.’ Look at these 2 sentences. The Prince banished Romeo to Mantua. (Past Simple Active) Romeo was banished to Mantua by the Prince. (Past Simple Passive) Rewrite these…

SIMPLE PAST TENSE

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To wish + past simple

‘I wish I could change places with you.’ Look at the following sentence from Chapter Twelve: ‘I wish I could change places with you.’ After the verb ‘wish’ we use the past tense when we talk…

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Video: Past perfect or past simple

Resource consisting of a video with an exercise about the uses of past perfect and past simple.

Past perfect and past simple: Match

This exercise consists in matching the answers to the their questions.