104: How to form and use the Past Simple (Irregular Verbs).

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How to form the past simple with irregular verbs. OK the irregular verbs for example to eat: eat, ate, eaten. They normally come in 1... 2... 3... columns. The first column is the compliment, the infinitive without to. The second column is for the past simple and in this tense we need to use the words from the second column. How to use them I will explain more in a minute. The third column is the past participle and for other tenses. SO, for past simple column 2. So to make affirmative statements in the past simple with irregular verbs, take a subject I and then the word from column 2. I ate. Eat, ate, eaten, column 2. I ate, you ate, he ate, she ate, it ate, we ate, you ate, they ate. And this is the only place where we use column 2. To make negatives we use the auxiliary did, followed by not, followed by the compliment of the verb. Column 1. So to make past statements in the negative with irregular verbs, I did not eat, column 1. I did not eat, column 1. Not I did not ate, no. I did not eat, you did not eat, he did not eat, she did not eat, we did not eat, you did not eat, they did not (or didn't) eat. To make questions invert the position of the subject and the auxiliary did. Did I eat? Again column 1. OK? Did you eat? Did he eat? Did she eat? Did it eat? Did we eat? Did you eat? Did they eat? So notice we only use the irregular part for affirmative statements, I ate. Negative, no, did I eat, no that's a question, in the negative I didn't eat. I got those the wrong way round, OK? So... the second column for affirmative statements only. So, for example write. Write, wrote, written. I wrote, but in the negative, I didn't write. Understand, I understood in the positive, but negative, I didn't understand. SO remember when making the past simple, use the second column (eat, ATE, understand, UNDERSTOOD) for positive formation. So, I'll see you in the next video and we'll learn some more. See you soon.