Verbs in the Past Tense (verb i preteritum)
LANGUAGE WORK
Regular verbs We add -ed to regular verbs in the past tense. If the word ends with -e, we add -d.
in gs ek s
Captain Blood robbed the Tower. He fooled the keeper at the Tower. Talbot Edwards opened the door.
em
pl
ar
to work – worked to open – opened to live – lived to try – tried
To be
er
Am/is becomes was in the past tense. Are becomes were in the past tense.
Vu rd
Today I am in London. Yesterday I was in Dublin. erday the gold diggers were sad. Today the gold diggers are happy. Yesterday I was a pirate. You were a thief. He was a king. She was an archaeologist. It was a golden coffin. We were gold diggers. You were treasure hunters. They were scientists.
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