The simple past tense is often used to talk about things that happened in the past. You can change most verbs into the simple past tense by adding -ed
| Verb | walk | cook | wash | play | jump |
| Past Verb | walked | cooked | washed | played | jumped |
A simple past sentence is formed using:
| subject + past verb |
| Subject | Past Verb | |
| I, You, He, She, It, We, You, They | rowed | the boat across the lake. |
Here are some examples of sentences in the simple past.
We jumped into the pool.
We splashed all the people around us!
I looked around underwater.
My dog floated on top.
Sasha played some games in the pool.
Then, we passed a ball around.