Past Simple: Regular and Irregular Verbs

• Use the past simple to talk about finished actions in the past. Regular verbs add -ed, but irregular verbs change their form completely.
• Verb Type
• Base Form
• Past Simple Form
• Example
• Regular
• book
• booked
• She booked a trip to Chicago.
• Regular
• miss
• missed
• He missed his flight in Dallas.
• Irregular
• lose
• lost
• They lost their luggage in Boston.
• Irregular
• go
• went
• We went to Seattle last week.
• Remember
• Use regular verbs by adding -ed or -d to the end.
• Learn irregular verbs individually because they do not use -ed.
• Use 'did' and 'didn't' for questions and negatives with all subjects.
• Examples
• I visited my uncle in New York.
• Ben bought a souvenir in Atlanta.
• She did not like the hotel room in Miami.
• Common mistakes
• I go to Boston yesterday.
• I went to Boston yesterday.
• She didn't booked a flight.
• She didn't book a flight.

Complete the sentences

• Last month, Mark (book) ____ a trip to San Francisco.
• Sarah (lose) ____ her passport at the airport in Denver.
• We (go) ____ to the cinema in Austin on Friday.
• He (miss) ____ his flight to Orlando because of traffic.
• Jessica (visit) ____ her cousin in Philadelphia.
• They (find) ____ a nice hotel room in Baltimore.

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