Grammar of the fifth lesson of the ninth grade in plain language
Simple Past Tense
simple past tense
The simple past tense is used to talk about events that happened and finished in the past. For example, pay attention to the following sentence:
My brother called me last night and asked me some questions about the weather.
My brother called last night and asked questions about the weather.
Pay attention to the verbs in this sentence. “Called” and “asked” are the two verbs of this sentence that happened last night and are finished. As a result, the tense of this sentence is simple past.
Simple past tense with regular verbs:
To make this tense, we must use the past form of the verb after the subject. If the verb is regular, ed is added to the end of it, and if the verb is irregular, the past part (second part) should be used after the subject. Pay attention to the following sentences:
We played football yesterday afternoon. (regular verb)
We played football yesterday evening.
She watched a comedy movie 2 hours a go. (regular verb)
He watched a comedy two hours ago.
They cleaned their room at seven. (regular verb)
They cleaned their room at seven o’clock.
Simple past tense question form:
The auxiliary verb did is used before the subject of the sentence to question the past simple positive sentences.
Important note: In the question sentences of this tense, the simple form of the verb should be used.
She translated the text easily.
He translated the text easily.
Did she translate the text easily? Yes, she did.
Did he translate the text easily? Yes, he translated.
Reza didn’t study hard last night.
Reza did not study hard last night.
Did Reza study hard last night? No, he didn’t.
Did Reza study hard last night? No, he did not study.
Negative form of simple past tense:
To negate the past simple before the main verb of the sentence, the auxiliary verb did not is used, whose abbreviated form is didn’t.
Important note: When we use did not or didn’t, we must use the simple form of the verb.
Reza studied hard last night.
Reza studied hard last night.
Reza didn’t study hard last night.
Reza did not study hard last night.
She translated the text easily.
He translated the text easily.
How to pronounce ed at the end of words
Learning to pronounce ed in English is very important because the past form of all verbs regularly ends in ed. In addition, some attributes also end with ed. In this post, we are going to discuss how to pronounce ed in English verbs.
At the end of words, ed is pronounced in three ways:
Pronounce ed as /Id/
If the last sound (nine letters) of a verb is /t/ or /d/, ed is pronounced as /Id/.
/d/ => blended
Pronounce ed as /t/
If the last sound (nine letters) of a verb is one of the sounds /p/, /f/, /s/, /ʃ/, /ʧ/ or /k/, ed will be /t/:
/p/ => stopped
/f/ => laughed
/ʧ/ => watched
Pronounce ed as /d/
If a verb ends in other sounds (not letters), /ed/ is pronounced as /d/:
played
allowed
In general, the above rules also apply to ed at the end of adjectives.