{"id":1764,"date":"2012-06-05T16:57:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T16:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/SchoolTutoring.com\/help\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:33:44","slug":"understanding-simple-past-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/understanding-simple-past-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Simple Past Tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Past tense is used to express actions started and finished in past. Simple past tense is type of past tense used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To express action completed in past<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example: I went to museum yesterday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To express duration in past<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example: I lived here for 5 years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To express habits in the past<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example: She worked here last summer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To express past facts or generalizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Example: Last summer was very hot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rules<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Second form of verb is used for simple past tense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Positive form:<\/strong> Subject + second form of verb + object<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Examples:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I liked the sandwich.<\/li>\n<li>She reached home.<\/li>\n<li>They practiced piano today.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Negative form: <\/strong>Subject + did not + second form of verb + object<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Examples:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>He did not like the sandwich.<\/li>\n<li>I did not go to work yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>Jack did not cook today.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Interrogative form: Did + subject + second form of verb + Object + ?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Examples:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Did you finish your work?<\/li>\n<li>Did he eat his food?<\/li>\n<li>Did you call Gennie?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>SchoolTutoring Academy is the premier educational services company for K-12 and college students. We offer tutoring programs for students in K-12, AP classes, and college. To learn more about how we help parents and students in Lethbridge visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/tutoring-in-lethbridge-alberta\/\">Tutoring in Lethbridge.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past tense is used to express actions started and finished in past. Simple past tense is type of past tense used: To express action completed in past Example: I went to museum yesterday. To express duration in past Example: I lived here for 5 years. To express habits in the past Example: She worked here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[117,1293,1297,1638,1916],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-and-grammar","tag-applications-of-past-tense","tag-past-indefinite","tag-past-tense","tag-simple-past-tense","tag-uses-of-past-tense"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}