Past Simple

When to use it

Use it for completed events in the past: We visited Lviv last year. The past time can be clear from context even without a word such as yesterday.

Affirmative, negative, question

She visited Lviv yesterday. — Вона відвідала Львів учора.

She did not visit Lviv yesterday. / She didn't visit Lviv yesterday. — Вона не відвідала Львів учора.

Did she visit Lviv yesterday? — Вона відвідала Львів учора?

Rules and important exceptions

• Regular verbs: work → worked, live → lived; consonant + y: study → studied. Some short verbs double the final consonant: stop → stopped.
• Learn irregular forms: go → went, take → took. An affirmative Past Simple statement needs the past form: I went. The past participle gone does not fit here.
• After did / did not / didn’t, use the base form: Did she go? She didn’t go. Do not write did went.
• Be has its own pattern: I/he/she/it was; you/we/they were. She wasn’t tired. Were they tired? Do not add did to was/were.
• Subject questions usually do not need did: Who called you?

Common mistakes

❌ Did she went? → ✅ Did she go?

❌ They was tired. → ✅ They were tired.

❌ I gone home yesterday. → ✅ I went home yesterday.

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