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To talk about past events or actions/ activities; I use the past simple tense: 

- Regular verbs: V (stem/base) +ed.

- Irregular verbs: each irregular verb has its own past tense and past participle forms.

= I use the past time marker (ago) preceded by words indicating a period of time.

            eg: I went to elementarybschool seventy years ago.

 

Past Simple Tense Review (forms):

_ Interrogative form: (Did + S + V + rest of the sentence?).

                      eg: Did you have fun, grandma?

_ Negative form: "didn't (in short answers) / "did not/ didn't + V" (in long answers).

                      eg: No, I didn't. I didn't have fun at all.

_ Affirmative form: "did (in short answers) / "V + ed" or irregular form (in long answers).

                      eg: Yes, I did. I had lot of fun.

= "didn't" is the contracted or short form of "did not".

= "did" is the past form of the irregular verb "to do".