Regular Verbs

We use the past simple tense for completed actions at a time in the past.

For regular verbs we usually add ed to the infinive.

For I, You, He, She, It, We and They the verb form is the same:

Subject	Past Form (V2)	Past
I	watched	yesterday.
You	played	last week.
He	walked	last night.
She	cooked	yesterday morning.
It	worked	last month.
We	cleaned	a week ago.
They	listened	last year.

We add d to infinitives ending with e:

Infinitive	Verb Form
move	moved
love	loved
fade	faded
produce	produced
manufacture	manufactured

We change y to ied for words ending in y:

Infinitive	Verb Form
study	studied
carry	carried
try	tried

Tip!
* We keep y if the letter before is a vowel:
plaied ✘
played ✔
enjoied ✘
enjoyed ✔

Subject	Verb Form	Past
I	moved	last year.
I	tried	yesterday.

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