Simple past tense
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Simple Past Tense geçmişteki tamamlanmış olayları ifade etmek için kullanılır. Olay zamanı yakın geçmiş de uzak geçmiş de olabilir.
Örnekler
- John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.
- My father died last year.
- He lived in Fiji in 1976.
- We crossed the Channel yesterday.
Bir şeyin ne zaman gerçekleştiğini ifade ederken her zaman Simple Past Tense kullanılır. Bu yüzden belirli geçmiş zaman ifadeleriyle beraber kullanılır.
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sıklık: often, sometimes, always
I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
I often brought my lunch to school. -
belirli bir zaman: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
We saw a good film last week.
Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.
She finished her work atseven o'clock
I went to the theatre last night -
belirsiz bir zaman: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago
People lived in caves a long time ago. - She played the piano when she was a child.
Not: the word ago is a useful way of expressing the distance into the past. It is placed after the period of time: a week ago, three years ago, a minute ago.
Simple Past Tense Yapısı
Düzenli fiiller için Simple Past Tense yapısı
| Olumlu | ||
| Subject | + verb + ed | |
| I | skipped. | |
| Olumsuz | ||
| Subject | + did not | + infinitive without to |
| They | didn't | go. |
| Soru | ||
| Did | + subject | + infinitive without to |
| Did | she | arrive? |
| Olumsuz Soru | ||
| Did not | + subject | + infinitive without to |
| Didn't | you | play? |
To Walk
| Olumlu | Olumsuz | Soru |
|---|---|---|
| I walked | I didn't walk | Did I walk? |
| You walked | You didn't walk | Did you walk? |
| He walked | He didn't walk | Did he walk? |
| We walked | We didn't walk | Did we walk? |
| They walked | They didn't walk | Did they walk? |
to be, to have, to do fiillerinin Simple Past Tense hali
| Subject | Verb | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Be | Have | Do | |
| I | was | had | did |
| You | were | had | did |
| He/She/It | was | had | did |
| We | were | had | did |
| You | were | had | did |
| They | were | had | did |
Notes on affirmative, negative, & interrogative forms
Affirmative
The affirmative of the simple past tense is simple.
- I was in Japan last year
- She had a headache yesterday.
- We did our homework last night.
Negative and interrogative
For the negative and interrogative simple past form of "do" as an ordinary verb, use the auxiliary "do", e.g. We didn't do our homework last night.
The negative of "have" in the simple past is usually formed using the auxiliary "do", but sometimes by simply adding not or the contraction "n't".
The interrogative form of "have" in the simple past normally uses the auxiliary "do".
Examples
- They weren't in Rio last summer.
- We didn't have any money.
- We didn't have time to visit the Eiffel Tower.
- We didn't do our exercises this morning.
- Were they in Iceland last January?
- Did you have a bicycle when you were young?
- Did you do much climbing in Switzerland?
Note: For the negative and interrogative form of all verbs in the simple past, always use the auxiliary 'did''.
Simple past, irregular verbs
Some verbs are irregular in the simple past. Here are the most common ones.
to go
- He went to a club last night.
- Did he go to the cinema last night?
- He didn't go to bed early last night.
to give
- We gave her a doll for her birthday.
- They didn't give John their new address.
- Did Barry give you my passport?
to come
- My parents came to visit me last July.
- We didn't come because it was raining.
- Did he come to your party last week?
