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SIDE BY SIDE This table puts the present simple and the past simple side by side so that students can compare them easily The colour code helps them to associate the similarities REMEMBER: We us simple verbs to talk about facts, truths and habits We use them with verbs of state too We form regular simple verbs by using the bare infinitive We often use adverbs of frequency with ‘simple’ verbs: Always, often, usually, sometimes, rarely, seldom, never We use the past simple when we can collocate a fact in the past We use the past simple with adverbs of past time: Yesterday, last week, last Monday, two days ago, three hours ago, PRESENT SIMPLE To BE Question Affirmative Negative Am I …? I am … I’m not … Are you ? You are … You aren’t … Is he …? He is … He isn’t … Is she …? She is … She isn’t … Is it …? It is … It isn’t … Are we …? We are … We aren’t … Are you …? You are … You aren’t … Are they …? They are … They aren’t … HAVE GOT (possession) Have I got …? I have (I’ve) got … I haven’t got … Have you got …? You’ve got … You haven’t got … Has he got …? He hasn’t got … He has (He’s)got Has she got …? She has got … She hasn’t got … Has it got …? It has got … It hasn’t got … Have we got …? We’ve got … We haven’t got … Have you got …? You’ve got … You haven’t got … Have they got …? They’ve got … They haven’t got REGULAR PRESENT SIMPLE VERBS – es: to WORK ? Affirmative Negative Do I work …? I work … I don’t work … Do you work …? You work … You don’t work … Does he work …? He doesn’t work … He works … Does she work …? She works … She doesn’t work … Does it work …? It doesn’t work … It works … Do we work …? We don’t work … We work … Do you work …? You don’t work … You work … Do they work …? They work … They don’t work … Does he go … ? Does she wash …? Does he try …? Does she study …? ? Was I …? Were you …? Was he …? Was she …? Was it …? Were we …? Were you …? Were they …? PAST SIMPLE To BE Affirmative Negative I was … I wasn’t … You were … You weren’t … He was … He wasn’t … She was … She wasn’t … It was … It wasn’t … We were … We weren’t … You were … You weren’t … They were … They weren’t … HAVE GOT (possession) We not use this form in the past tense REGULAR PAST SIMPLE VERBS ? Affirmative Negative Did I work …? I worked … I didn’t work … Did you work …? You worked … You didn’t work … Did he work …? He worked … He didn’t work … Did she work …? She worked … She didn’t work … Did it work …? It worked … It didn’t work … Did we work …? We worked … We didn’t work … Did you work …? You worked … You didn’t work … Did they work …? They worked … They didn’t work … IRREGULAR Did they go …? They went … They didn’t go … Did she teach …? She taught … She didn’t teach … Did you sing …? You sang … You didn’t sing … Did he study …? He studied … He didn’t study … Did we have …? We had … We didn’t have … REMEMBER: Only the present simple and the past simple use do, does, did as an additional He goes She washes He tries She studies He doesn’t go … She doesn’t wash He doesn’t try … She doesn’t study auxiliary All other questions are formed by inverting the subject and the first verb in the same manner as the verb ‘to be’