Simple past tense: affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms
I listened to the song.
Subject + regular or irregular verb in the past form +
complements
AFFIRMATIVE FORM
Express the idea that an action started and finished
at a specific time in the past.
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I did not / didn’t listen to the song.
Subject + did not (or didn’t ) + verb in the infinitive form +
complements
NEGATIVE FORM
Express something that was not done in the past.
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INTERROGATIVE FORMWe use did to make questions about past situations.
Did you listen to the song?Did + subject + verb in the base form + complements
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Write in your notebook, affirmative sentences in the simple past.
Write in your notebook, negative sentences in the simple past.
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Write in your notebook interrogative sentences in the simple past.
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