Past tense

·        When you talk about something that happened before now, you change the verb to past tense.

 

Verb	Past Tense Verb		Verb	Past Tense Verb
watch play help start finish	watched played helped started finished		go eat see have sit	went ate saw had sat

         

Examples:

We played basketball for two hours yesterday.

          (“Yesterday” is before now.)

Jane had a birthday party last month.

          (“Last month” is before now.)

My mother went to Japan three days ago.

          (“Three days ago” is before now.)

 

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