Forming the Simple Past, sometimes called the Preterite tense, is really pretty easy… at least for regular verbs. You take the subject, follow it with the verb ending in –ed and there you have it. Example:Subject + verb + –edI + play +edI played And, to make it easier, the Simple Past form is invariable – that means it doesn’t change no matter what subject you use. Let’s look at the verb ‘to play’, in the Simple Past it would look like this: I playedYou playedHe, she, it playedWe playedYou playedThey played A couple of things to watch out for: * Verbs ending in a consonant + y, like cry and try: drop the y and add ied. * Verbs ending in e like receive only need to have the ‘d’ added – received. For the irregular verbs in English it is a bit more difficult and you will need to learn most of the most often used ones. There is a full list of irregular verbs with their past form on English4Today. Now, before moving to the next video where we talk about when to use the Simple ...