Rules of Past Simple
True or false - We use the past simple tense to talk about things that happened or existed before now.
True
True or False - The past continuous tense is used to express the idea that an action was in progress at a certain time in the past.
True
The nurse ______ (put) the little boy to bed and _______ (speak) to him softly.
put, spoke.
True or False - The words enough and too indicate an amount of something and modify adjectives, verbs and nouns.
True
True or False - We use the words so and such to intensify adjectives, adverbs and nouns.
True
True or False - We only used verbs that end in -ed to talk about the past?
False - we use both regular and irregular verbs.
True or False - We express the past continuous tense using was/were and the -ed form of a verb?
False - we use was/were and the -ing form of a verb.
When Lucy _______ (go) to the interview, she ______ (wear) her best suit.
went, wore.
True or False - Too means less than what is needed and enough means sufficient.
False - Too means more than what is needed and enough means sufficient.
True or False - We use such along with words like much, many, little and few with a noun to make it stronger?
False - We use so along with words like much, m many, little and few with a noun to make it stronger.
True or False - We use irregular verbs such as bought (to buy) to speak about the past.
True
True or false - we can use both the past simple and past continuous tenses together to explain that a past simple action happened in the middle of the past continuous action.
True.
I _______ (think) I ________ (know) my irregular verbs, but now I'm not so sure!
thought, knew.
It isn't cold ________ to wear that coat.
enough
It's _______ a hot day today.
Such
True or False - In order to form a negative sentence using regular verbs in simple past tense we must add did not before the verb ending in -ed?
False - we must add did not before the verb in infinitive form.
True or false - we can also use irregular verbs to express the past continuous?
False - we only use was/were and verbs ending in -ing.
The young man _______(take) out his wallet and _______ (pay) the bill.
took, paid.
There is ______ much salt in this food.
too
He walks _______ slowly. It's very annoying.
so
True or False - In order to form an affirmative sentence using regular verbs in simple past tense we must add -ed to the end of the verb?
True
True or false - The following example demonstrates how we can use both the past simple and past continuous together to express something that happened in the past: When the guests arrived, Jane was cooking dinner.
True
When Jose ______ (break) his arm, the doctor ______ (give) him two weeks off work.
broke, gave.
We have ________ money to go on a vacation.
enough
There are ______ many people here.
so
True or False - payed is the past tense form of pay.
False - paid is the past tense form of pay.
True or False - The following is the correct use of past continuous: 'We was studying in the library all evening'
False: We were studying in the library all evening.
I ______ (eat) too much on the weekend.
ate
They watch _______ much television on the weekends.
too
He is ________ a fast runner.