Thì quá khứ đơn
Thì quá khứ đơn được sử dụng khi chúng ta muốn nói về:
- Sự việc đã xảy ra trong quá khứ:
I met my wife in 1983.
We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.
- Sự việc xảy ra một vài lần trong quá khứ.
When I was a boy, I walked a mile to school every day.
We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.
- Sự việc đúng cho một khoảng thời gian trong quá khứ.
I lived abroad for ten years.
He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.
- Chúng ta thường sử dụng với “ago” trong quá khứ.
I met my wife a long time ago.
Phần lớn đối với các động từ ở quá khứ chúng ta sẽ thêm -ed:
called liked wanted worked
Tuy nhiên có rất nhiều động từ bất quy tắc ở thì quá khứ trong tiếng anh. Dưới đây là bảng liệt kê các động từ bất quy tắc hay sử dụng:
| Base form | Past tense |
| be begin break bring buy build choose come cost cut do draw drive eat feel find get give go have hear hold keep know leave lead let lie lose make mean meet pay put run say sell send set sit speak spend stand take teach tell think understand wear win write |
was/were began broke brought bought built chose came cost cut did drew drove ate felt found got gave went had heard held kept knew left led let lay lost made meant met paid put ran said sold sent set sat spoke spent stood took taught told thought understood wore won wrote |
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