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C Grammar

Read these sentences.

I entered the room.

I saw the snake.

These sentences are in the simple past tense. Simple past tense tells us about:

• events that happened at a particular time in the past

Hari painted his house yesterday.

• things that happened regularly in the past

Hari ate ice cream twice every week.

We usually add -d or -ed to the base of the verb to make the past tense form.

cooked, jumped, walked, received, opened, finished

There are many verbs that don’t follow any rule to form the past tense form.

see – saw meet – met begin – began

know – knew have – had come – came

The verbs that do not become past tense by adding -d or -ed are called
irregular verbs.

C1. Write the past tense forms of these verbs.

swim have take buy

write bring sing win

C2. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences using the irregular past

tense forms in C1.

1. Last Sunday Ali in the river.

2. I chocolate ice cream yesterday. It was delicious.

3. Ajit a letter to his friend in Australia.

4. Who the match yesterday?

5. My father two picture books from the shop – one for me

and one for my sister.

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