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              9 9 9                   Verbs – Past Tenseerbs – Past Tenseerbs – Past Tense





             Verbs that express an action or an event which occurred in the past are

             said to be in the past tense.







                         I did  my
                        homework
                         sincerely.                                      I was  just
                                                                      reading a story.

























             G    Forms of Simple Past Tense.

                                                                                   Question
                    I, we            spoke.                                         I, we
                    you              ____________                                   you             speak?

                    he, she, it      did not speak.                        Did      he, she
                    they             didn’t speak.                                  it, they


             G    Uses of Simple Past Tense       .
                  It is used —

                      ·  to express actions finished before the time of speaking.

                      ·  to express some past habit.
                      ·  to express an action that took place over a period of time in the past.



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