The Simple Past Tense

The Simple Past Tense

I played guitar last weekend. I also listened to the radio.
What did you do last week? Yesterday? Last month?

We use the simple past tense to describe actions that occurred in the past. These actions may have happened earlier today, yesterday, last week, last year, and so on.

Add ed to the end of the verb to form the past tense.

Here are some examples.

Present Tense	Past Tense
listen	listened. Yesterday, I listened to the radio.
watch	watched Last week, I watched the football game.
jump	jumped The children jumped on the bed.
walk	walked I walked to the store this morning.

The simple past tense describes actions that happened in the past.