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Mind map Past Simple in English

The document outlines the structure of the past simple tense in English, detailing affirmative, negative, interrogative, and interro-negative forms. It provides examples for both regular and irregular verbs to illustrate how past actions are expressed. The focus is on the use of 'did' in negative and interrogative sentences.

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Mind map Past Simple in English

The document outlines the structure of the past simple tense in English, detailing affirmative, negative, interrogative, and interro-negative forms. It provides examples for both regular and irregular verbs to illustrate how past actions are expressed. The focus is on the use of 'did' in negative and interrogative sentences.

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Past Simple

Past actions

PRESENT FUTURE
PAST

Example: My parents watched


Affirmative Form: a horror film last week with
Subject + base form + ed Regular verbs their friends

Subject + past form of the verb Irregular verbs Example: Luca and Mattia
went to the cinema with their
friends yesterday

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Negative Form: Subject + did not / didn’t + base form Example: Luca and Mattia didn’t go to the cinema
with their friends yesterday

Example: My parents didn’t watch a horror film last


week with their friends

Example: Didn’t Luca and Mattia go to the


Interronegative Form: Didn’t+ subject + base form…? cinema with their friends yesterday?
weekwith their friends yesterday

Example: Didn’t my parents watch a horror film


last week?

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Example: Did Luca and Mattia go to the
Interrogative Form: Did+ subject + base form…?
cinema with their friends yesterday?
weekwith their friends yesterday

Example: Did my parents watch a horror film


last week?

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