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PAST SIMPLE in Regular Verbs (Formation + Exercises), Original in PDF

This document provides instructions for conjugating regular verbs into the past simple tense in English. It explains that for verbs ending in e, you add -d; for verbs ending in a consonant + y, you change the y to i and add -ed; for one-vowel one-consonant verbs not ending in w or y, you double the consonant and add -ed; and for all other verbs including those ending in w, you simply add -ed. Examples are given for each conjugation type.

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PAST SIMPLE in Regular Verbs (Formation + Exercises), Original in PDF

This document provides instructions for conjugating regular verbs into the past simple tense in English. It explains that for verbs ending in e, you add -d; for verbs ending in a consonant + y, you change the y to i and add -ed; for one-vowel one-consonant verbs not ending in w or y, you double the consonant and add -ed; and for all other verbs including those ending in w, you simply add -ed. Examples are given for each conjugation type.

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PAST SIMPLE (Regular verbs)

Verb ending in...

How to make the simple past

Examples

-e

Add -D

live
date

Consonant +y

Change y to i, then add -ED

try
cry

One vowel + one consonant


(but NOT w or y)

Double the consonant, then add -ED

tap
tapped
commit
committed

Add -ED

boil
boiled
fill
filled
hand
handed
show
showed

anything else including w

lived
dated
tried
cried

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