Learn Past Simple Tense English Grammar Course

Hi, everyone.

大家好。

In this video, I will introduce the past simple English tense.

在这个视频中，我将介绍英语简单过去时态。

This grammar tense can help you explain a past general state, action, or habit.

这种语法时态可以帮助您解释过去的一般状态、动作或习惯。

There's a lot to learn and it's a very important tense, so keep watching.

有很多东西需要学习，而且这是一个非常重要的时态，所以请继续关注。

In this video, I will talk about the 'be' verb in the past simple tense.

在本视频中，我将讨论过去简单时态中的“be”动词。

The 'be' verb in the past simple tense can be used to describe a past general state.

过去简单时态中的“be”动词可用于描述过去的一般状态。

We use the 'be' verbs, ‘was’ and ‘were’ in this tense.

我们在这种时态下使用“be”动词、“was”和“were”。

Take a look at the examples.

看一下示例。

‘I was scared.’

'我被吓到了。'

‘James', or he 'was a teacher.’

“詹姆斯”，或者他“是一名老师”。

‘She was sad.’

'她很伤心。'

‘My dog was hungry.’

“我的狗饿了。”

‘My dog’ can be ‘it’.

“我的狗”可以是“它”。

So for ‘I’, ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’, we use the past tense 'be' verb, ‘was’.

因此，对于“我”、“他”、“她”、“它”，我们使用过去时“be”动词“was”。

However, for ‘you’, ‘we’ and ‘they’, we use ‘were’.

然而，对于“你”、“我们”和“他们”，我们使用“were”。

‘You were a good student.’

“你是个好学生。”

‘Your parents, or they were at the park.’ and ‘We were at home for two hours.’

“你的父母，或者他们在公园里。”和“我们在家呆了两个小时。”

In this last sentence, you see that the duration is emphasized.

在最后一句话中，您会看到强调了持续时间。

Great job.

做得好。

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

Now I will talk about regular verbs in the past simple tense.

现在我来谈谈规则动词的过去简单时态。

Take a look at these examples.

看看这些例子。

‘Liam played a game.’

“利亚姆玩了一场游戏。”

Liam is a ‘he’,

Liam 是一个“he”，

but really it doesn't matter for regular verbs in the past simple tense.

但对于过去简单时态的常规动词来说实际上并不重要。

Because no matter what the subject is, all we have to do is add ‘d’ or ‘ed’

因为无论主语是什么，我们所要做的就是

to the end of the verb.

在动词末尾添加“d”或“ed”。

Here the verb is ‘play’, so I added ‘-ed’.

这里的动词是“play”，所以我加了“-ed”。

‘Liam played a game.’

“利亚姆玩了一场游戏。”

‘The car, or it needed gas.’

“汽车，或者它需要汽油。”

The verb here is ‘need’.

这里的动词是“需要”。

For the past simple tense, I added ‘-ed’.

对于过去简单时态，我添加了“-ed”。

‘We watched a movie.’

“我们看了电影。”

Again, an ‘ed’ at the of ‘watch’.

再次，“watch”后面有一个“ed”。

‘You exercised for an hour.’

“你锻炼了一个小时。”

In this case, the verb is ‘exercise’.

在这种情况下，动词是“练习”。

I only need to add a ‘d’ to make it the past tense.

我只需要添加一个“d”即可使其成为过去时。

And finally, ‘They usually worked after school.’

最后，“他们通常放学后工作。”

The verb is ‘work’.

动词是“工作”。

And I added an ‘ed’ to make it in the past tense.

我添加了一个“ed”以使其成为过去时。

The word ‘usually’ shows that this was a habit.

“通常”这个词表明这是一种习惯。

Remember, the past simple tense can be used to show past habits.

请记住，过去简单时态可以用来表示过去的习惯。

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

Now, I'll talk about irregular verbs in the past simple tense.

现在，我将讨论过去简单时态的不规则动词。

Remember, for regular verbs, we only add ‘d’ or ‘ed’ to make a verb into the past tense.

请记住，对于常规动词，我们仅添加“d”或“ed”来使动词变为过去时。

However, for irregular verbs, we have to change the verb in a different way.

然而，对于不规则动词，我们必须以不同的方式改变动词。

Let's take a look at some examples.

让我们看一些例子。

‘I ate with my friend.’

“我和朋友一起吃饭。”

The verb here is ‘ate’.

这里的动词是“吃”。

‘ate’ is the past simple tense of ‘eat’.

“ate”是“eat”的过去简单时态。

The next example says, ‘Nara wrote a story.’

下一个例子说，“奈良写了一个故事。”

The verb is ‘write’.

动词是“写”。

And because it's irregular to change it into the past tense, we change the verb to ‘wrote’.

由于将其改为过去时态是不规则的，因此我们将动词改为“wrote”。

‘You often came home late.’

“你经常很晚回家。”

The verb here is ‘come’ and it's been changed to ‘came’.

这里的动词是“来”，现在改为“来了”。

You'll notice that we had the word ‘often’ to show a habit.

你会注意到我们用“经常”这个词来表示一种习惯。

‘We bought a camera.’

“我们买了一台相机。”

The verb here is ‘buy’ and it's been changed to ‘bought’ to show the past simple tense.

这里的动词是“buy”，已改为“bought”以表示过去简单时态。

And finally, ‘My parents sent me money for a year.’

最后，“我父母给我寄了一年的钱。”

Here the verb ‘sent’ is the past tense of ‘send’.

这里动词“sent”是“send”的过去式。

Here we also see ‘for a year’, this shows duration.

在这里我们还看到“一年”，这显示了持续时间。

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

Now I will talk about the negative form for the 'be' verb in the past simple tense.

现在我将讨论过去简单时态中“be”动词的否定形式。

Here are some examples.

这里有些例子。

The first one says, ‘I was not hungry.’

第一个说：“我不饿。”

For the past simple tense, the negative 'be' verb

对于过去简单时态，否定动词“be”

I f the subject is ‘I’, ‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘it’, we say ‘was not’.

如果主语是“我”、“他”、“她”或“它”，我们说“不是”。

For example, ‘I was not’ or ‘she was not’ or the contraction ‘wasn't’.

例如，“我不是”或“她不是”或缩写“不是”。

‘I wasn't’.

“我不是”。

‘She wasn't’.

“她不是”。

So let's look again, ‘I was not hungry.’

让我们再看一遍，“我不饿。”

‘She wasn't home today.’

“她今天不在家。”

Now, if the subject is ‘you’, ‘we’ or ‘they’,

现在，如果主语是“你”、“我们”或“他们”，

We say ‘were not’ or the contraction ‘weren't’.

我们说“were not”或缩写“weren't”。

‘The children, or they were not quiet.’

“孩子们，或者他们不安静。”

‘The children were not quiet.’

“孩子们并不安静。”

And then, ‘The dog', or it was not, or 'wasn't playful.’

然后是“那只狗”，或者它不是，或者“不好玩”。

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

Now, let's talk about how to form the negative in the past simple tense for non-'be' verbs,

现在，我们来谈谈如何为非“be”动词（

regular or irregular.

规则或不规则）形成过去简单时态的否定形式。

Here are some examples.

这里有些例子。

‘I did not like him.’

“我不喜欢他。”

What we do for non-'be' verbs is simply put ‘did not’ after the subject.

我们对非“be”动词所做的只是在主语后面加上“did not”。

And you'll notice that for the verb, we don't make any changes.

您会注意到，对于动词，我们没有做任何更改。

We keep the base verb.

我们保留基本动词。

‘He didn't catch the ball.’

“他没有接住球。”

Again, it's ‘he did not’, but here we used a contraction,

再说一次，这是“他没有”，但这里我们使用了缩写，

‘He didn't catch the ball.’

“他没有接住球。”

‘They didn't dance.’

“他们没有跳舞。”

Again, here's the contraction for ‘did not’.

再说一次，这里是“没有”的缩写。

And you'll notice that for the verb, we didn't change it at all.

您会注意到，对于动词，我们根本没有改变它。

Here's an irregular verb, and here's a regular verb, we keep them in the base form.

这是一个不规则动词，这是一个规则动词，我们将它们保留为基本形式。

And finally, ‘We didn't think about that.’

最后，“我们没有考虑过这一点。”

Again, we simply say ‘did not’ or ‘didn't’.

同样，我们只是说“没有”或“没有”。

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

Now I will introduce two ways to form questions for the past simple tense.

现在我将介绍两种过去简单时态疑问句的构成方法。

Take a look at the first example.

看一下第一个例子。

‘He was angry.’

'他生气了。'

In this first sentence, we see the 'be' verb ‘was’.

在第一句话中，我们看到“be”动词“was”。

It's quite easy.

这很容易。

All you have to do to turn this into a question is switch the order the first two words.

要把它变成一个问题，你所要做的就是调换前两个单词的顺序。

‘Was he angry?’

“他生气了吗？”

You can answer by saying ‘Yes, he was.’ or ‘No, he wasn't.’

你可以这样回答：“是的，他是。”或“不，他不是。”

The next sentence also has a 'be' verb.

下一个句子也有一个“be”动词。

‘They were comfortable.’

“他们很舒服。”

So again, switch the first two words.

再次，交换前两个词。

‘Were they comfortable?’

“他们舒服吗？”

The answers can be, ‘Yes, they were.’

答案可能是，“是的，他们是。”

or ‘No, they weren't.’

或“不，他们不是。”

However, look at the third sentence.

不过，请看第三句话。

‘Sam lived here.’

“萨姆住在这里。”

There is no 'be' verb in this sentence.

这句话中没有“be”动词。

Instead, we see the action verb ‘lived’.

相反，我们看到动作动词“lived”。

So what we do is no matter what the subject,

所以我们所做的就是无论主题是什么，

we start the question with ‘did’.

我们都以“did”开始问题。

‘Did Sam live here?’

“萨姆住在这里吗？”

You'll notice that the verb no longer is in the past tense.

您会注意到该动词不再是过去时态。

We use the base form of the verb.

我们使用动词的基本形式。

‘Did Sam live here?’

“萨姆住在这里吗？”

You can say ‘Yes, he did.’

你可以说“是的，他做到了。”

or ‘No, he didn't.’

或“不，他没有。”

The last sentence is similar.

最后一句也类似。

‘They won the contest last year.’

“他们去年赢得了比赛。”

The verb here is ‘won’, that's not a 'be' verb.

这里的动词是“won”，而不是“be”动词。

So again, we start the question with ‘did’ .

所以，我们再次以“did”开始这个问题。

And then the subject ‘they’, we use the base form of the verb and that's ‘win’.

然后是主语“他们”，我们使用动词的基本形式，那就是“赢”。

‘Did they win the contest last year?’

“他们去年赢得了比赛吗？”

You can say, ‘Yes, they did.’

你可以说：“是的，他们做到了。”

or ‘No, they didn't.’

或“不，他们没有。”

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

Now I'll introduce how to create an answer WH questions in the past simple tense.

现在我将介绍如何用过去简单时态回答 WH 问题。

Take a look at the board.

看看黑板。

We have some WH words here.

我们这里有一些 WH 词。

‘What’ ‘When’

“什么”“何时”

‘Where’ and ‘Why’

“哪里”和“为什么”

You'll notice that after each WH word comes the word ‘did’.

您会注意到每个 WH 单词后面都有“did”一词。

‘What did’ ‘When did’

“做了什么”“什么时候做了”

‘Where did’ and ‘Why did’.

“在哪里做了”和“为什么做了”。

What comes after that the subject and then the base form of the verb.

接下来是主语，然后是动词的基本形式。

So, let's take a look.

那么，让我们来看看。

‘What did you do last night?’

'你昨天晚上做了什么？'

‘What did you do last night?’

'你昨天晚上做了什么？'

I can answer by saying something like, ‘I watched a movie.’

我可以这样回答：“我看了电影。”

Or ‘I read a book.’

或者“我读了一本书”。

You'll notice that the answer is in the past simple tense.

您会注意到答案是过去简单时态。

‘When did you get home last night?’

“你昨晚什么时候回家的？”

‘I got home at 10 p.m.’

“我晚上 10 点到家”

‘Where did they eat lunch?’

“他们在哪里吃午餐？”

‘They ate lunch at home.’

“他们在家吃午饭。”

Again, ‘ate’ is the past tense of ‘eat’.

同样，“ate”是“eat”的过去式。

Answer in the past simple tense.

用过去简单时态回答。

And finally, ‘Why did the company hire him?’

最后，“公司为什么雇用他？”

‘The company hired him because he's a hard worker.’

“公司雇用他是因为他工作勤奋。”

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

Wow, we learned a lot in this video.

哇，我们在这个视频中学到了很多东西。

Keep studying and reviewing the past simple tense.

继续学习和复习过去简单时态。

It's an essential tense that will help you talk about the past.

这是一种基本时态，可以帮助您谈论过去。

Keep studying English and I'll see you in the next video.

继续学习英语，我们将在下一个视频中见到你。

Bye.

再见。