What is the simple past tense?
The simple past tense talks about events that started and finished in the past. For example: I ate too much ice cream at Mike’s birthday party yesterday. They didn’t study for the test last week. What is the sentence structure? The sentence structure for positive past tense sentences looks like this: subject | main verb (past tense) | object | complement (time expression) He | watched | a movie | last Saturday. Walter | played | basketball | two weeks ago. The sentence structure for negative past tense sentences looks like this: subject | auxiliary verb (did) + not | main verb | object | complement (time expression) Bill | did not | eat | breakfast | this morning. Beth | did not | go | to the beach | last weekend. And lastly, here is the sentence structure for questions: yes/no questions: auxiliary verb (did) | subject | main verb | object | complement Did | you | finish | the report | last night? wh-questions: wh-question | auxiliary verb (did) | subject | main verb | object | complem
