Question

Read what Suniti tells about her daily routine.
I usually get up at 6 am. I have a bath, and go to temple for prayers. I come back from the temple and have breakfast. Then, I get ready for school. I walk to school, which takes me about 20 minutes. School starts at 10.00 am. We have the lunch break at 1.00 pm. I am always tired when I get home. I usually revise for my lessons in the evenings. I don’t usually go out. I have my dinner at 9.00 and go to bed.

Now write what happened yesterday.

Suniti got up at 6.am yesterday.
She___________________________________________________

Answer 1

Answer:

Suniti got up at 6 a.m. yesterday.

She had a bath, and went to temple for prayers. She came back from the temple and had breakfast. Then, she got ready for school. She walked to school, which took her about 20 minutes. School started at 10.00 a.m. They had the lunch break at 1.00 p.m. She was tired as always when she got home. She revised for her lessons yesterday evening. She didn't go out. She had her dinner at 9.00 and went to bed.

Explanation:

⇒ Simple past tense is one of the four types of past tense. It is used in sentences when conveying

• an event that happened in the past
• a past habit
• completed actions/events
• a conditional type 2 sentence

⇒ Here, time adverbials like yesterday, some days ago, last month etc. come into play.

⇒ Sentence structure of a sentence in simple past is:

        subject + second form of the verb + object.

⇒ Verbs take their second form (V₂) when simple past tense is used.

Most verbs take d/ed to be transformed into their V₂. These verbs are called regular past tense verbs. For example:

• smile → smiled
• talk → talked
• dance → danced
• wait → waited

Then, there are the irregular past tense verbs. They don't take d/ed in their V₂. For example:

• eat → ate
• see → saw
• sing → sang
• come → came

Some irregular verbs like put, hit and hurt do not even change in past tense.