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SIDE BY SIDE
This table puts the present simple and the past simple side by side so that students can compare them
easily. The colour code helps them to associate the similarities.
REMEMBER: We us simple verbs to talk about facts, truths and habits.
We use them with verbs of state too.
We form regular simple verbs by using the bare infinitive.
We often use adverbs of frequency with ‘simple’ verbs:
Always, often, usually, sometimes, rarely, seldom, never.
We use the past simple when we can collocate a fact in the past.
We use the past simple with adverbs of past time:
Yesterday, last week, last Monday, two days ago, three hours ago,

PRESENT SIMPLE
To BE
Question
Affirmative
Negative
Am I …?
I
am …
I’m not …
Are you ...?
You are …
You aren’t …
Is he …?
He is …
He isn’t …
Is she …?
She is …
She isn’t …
Is it …?

It is …
It isn’t …
Are we …?
We are …
We aren’t …
Are you …?
You are …
You aren’t …
Are they …?
They are …
They aren’t …
HAVE GOT (possession)
Have I got …?
I have (I’ve) got …
I haven’t got …
Have you got …?
You’ve got …
You haven’t got …
Has he got …?
He hasn’t got …
He has (He’s)got
Has she got …? She has got …
She hasn’t got …
Has it got …? It has got …
It hasn’t got …
Have we got …? We’ve got …
We haven’t got …
Have you got …? You’ve got …
You haven’t got …
Have they got …? They’ve got …

They haven’t got .
REGULAR PRESENT SIMPLE VERBS – es: to WORK
?
Affirmative
Negative
Do I work …?
I work …
I
don’t work …
Do you work …?
You work …
You don’t work …
Does he work …?
He doesn’t work …
He works …
Does she work …?
She works … She doesn’t work …
Does it work …?
It doesn’t work …
It works …
Do we work …?
We don’t work …
We work …
Do you work …?
You don’t work …
You work …
Do they work …?
They work … They don’t work …
Does he go … ?
Does she wash …?

Does he try …?
Does she study …?

?
Was I …?
Were you …?
Was he …?
Was she …?
Was it …?
Were we …?
Were you …?
Were they …?

PAST SIMPLE
To BE
Affirmative
Negative
I was …
I
wasn’t …
You were …
You weren’t …
He was …
He wasn’t …
She was …
She wasn’t …
It was …
It wasn’t …
We were …
We weren’t …

You were …
You weren’t …
They were …
They weren’t …
HAVE GOT (possession)

We do not use this form in the past tense.

REGULAR PAST SIMPLE VERBS
?
Affirmative
Negative
Did I work …?
I
worked …
I didn’t work …
Did you work …?
You worked …
You didn’t work …
Did he work …?
He worked …
He didn’t work …
Did she work …?
She worked …
She didn’t work …
Did it work …?
It worked …
It didn’t work …
Did we work …?
We worked …

We didn’t work …
Did you work …?
You worked …
You didn’t work …
Did they work …? They worked …
They didn’t work …

IRREGULAR
Did they go …?
They went ….
They didn’t go …
Did she teach …?
She taught …
She didn’t teach …
Did you sing …?
You sang …
You didn’t sing …
Did he study …?
He studied …
He didn’t study …
Did we have …?
We had …
We didn’t have …
REMEMBER: Only the present simple and the past simple use do, does, did as an additional
He goes
She washes
He tries
She studies

He doesn’t go …

She doesn’t wash ..
He doesn’t try …
She doesn’t study ..

auxiliary. All other questions are formed by inverting the subject and the first verb in the
same manner as the verb ‘to be’.