Verbs in the Past Tense

Verbs in the Past Tense (verb i preteritum)

Regular verbs

We add -ed to regular verbs in the past tense. If the word ends with -e, we add -d.

to work – worked to open – opened to live – lived to try – tried

LANGUAGE WORK

Captain Blood robbed the Tower. He fooled the keeper at the Tower. Talbot Edwards opened the door. To be Am/is becomes was in the past tense. Are becomes were in the past tense. Today I am in London. Yesterday I was in Dublin. Today the gold diggers are happy. Yesterday the gold diggers were sad. 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.

erday the gold diggers were sad. Vurderingseksemplar

Irregular verbs

Look at these verbs. How do they change in the past tense?

to think – thought to dig – dug to find – found to know – knew

Mrs Pretty thought there was gold inside the mounds. Mr Brown dug for three years. He found an old ship. Mr Brown knew he had found a treasure.

TASK a Hunt for words ending with -ed in the text about Captain Blood on pages 162–167. How many regular verbs in the past tense can you find? b Use these time expressions and make sentences:

five minutes ago yesterday two hours ago last night the other day the week before last c Say these sentences in the past tense: Clementine is a young girl. Her father is a gold digger.Vurderingseksemplar Clementine and her father are poor. The Egyptians are clever builders. d Here are some irregular verbs in the past tense from the text about

Captain Blood. What do they mean?