The most basic use of the past tense is to describe one completed action in the past, The completed action in the past generally indicated by the time markers such as yesterday, two days ago, in 1981 etc or simply by the use of the verb in the past tense
S + VII + O (+)
Did + S + VI + O (?)
S + did not + O (-)
Example
The physicians left the hospital 2 hours ago (+)
Did the physicians leave (V I) the hospital 2 hours ago (?)
The physician did not leave the hospital 2 hours ago (-)
Listening
I locked it
Karen : I enjoyed that film
Peter : yes I enjoyed it, too
Karen : But Peter, I’m worried
Peter : worried?
Karen : Yes I’m worried about the house
Peter : Oh stop worrying about the house. Let’s go and have a coffee
Karen : Yes, I’d like a cup of coffee, but you know
Peter : What’s wrong now?
Karen : The house. Did you close the door?
Peter : Of course I closed the door, come on!
Karen : And did you lock it?
Peter : Of course. I locked it. Come on.
Peter : Peter
Peter : Yes?
Karen : The windows?
Peter : what about the windows?
Karen : did you close them?
Peter : of course I closed them. And I closed the door, and I locked it
Karen : I’m still worried
Peter : Stop worrying about the house. Let’s go and find a cafĂ©
Karen : Oh. All right. If you’re sure you locked the house.
I left the keys in the lock
Karen : how much were the coffee?
Peter : ten pence each. That’s twenty pence. Where’s the money?
Karen : in my bag. I’ll get it. How much did you say?
Peter : twenty pence
Karen : Peter!
Peter : yes
Karen : the keys
Peter : what about the keys?
Karen : They aren’t in my handbag
Peter : nonsense ! I put them in your handbag
Karen : when?
Peter : I put them in your handbag before I left the house
Karen : buy the aren’t in my handbag
Peter : they must be. Let’s see. I closed the windows
Karen : yes
Peter : I closed the door
Karen : yes
Peter : I locked the door
Karen : yes
Peter : then I
Karen : yes
Peter : Oh no!
Karen : What’s wrong?
Peter : I locked the door
Karen : yes?
Peter : and I left the keys in the lock!
Karen : you left the keys in the lock! Oh no!
Peter : come on! Let’s go!
Karen : but our coffee-
Peter : never mind our coffee. I left the keys in the door.
Reading
Jim’s stomach-ache
Jim went to the doctor this morning. He likes apples very much and yesterday he ate too many green ones, so this morning he had a stomach-ache. When he came to breakfast he was crying. “What’s the matter, Jim? “ his mother said “Why are you crying?”
“My stomach hurts, mother” he answer
red. “You ate too many apples yesterday, “she said, and “They were green. Go to Dr. Jones and he will give you some medicine. You know his house “Yes Mother, I’ll go in the bus. And I don’t want any breakfast now.”
Jim go to Dr. John’s house at 9.30, but there were four other people in the doctor’s waiting-room, so Jim didn’t see the doctor until about 10 o’clock. “What’s the matter with you, young man?” said Dr. Jones. “I have a stomach-ache” said Jim. “Have you eaten any green apples?” asked the doctor. “yes I ate a lot yesterday” Jim said, and smiled. They doctor smiled too, he wrote on a piece of paper and said, “Take this to a chemist, and he will give you some medicine. “Jim thanked the doctor, went to a chemist and bought the medicine, his stomach-ache was soon better.
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