ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY

 

 

You will often find the past simple used with time expressions such as these:

• Yesterday

• three weeks ago
• last year
• in 2002

• from March to June
• for a long time
• for 6 weeks
• in the 1980s
• in the last century
• in the past

In the following example sentences the expressions of finished time are shown in bold:

• She came to Germany two years ago.
• Columbus discovered America in 1492.
• I played tennis at the weekend.
• I didn't see you yesterday. Were you in school?
• My mother went shopping on Saturday but she didn't buy anything.
• Did you see the film on TV last night?

Learn More About Time Expression

Further Reading and Exercises About Past Simple Tense

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/irregular-verbs-exercise-2.html

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5114

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-simple-past.php#.Uoy9OhyQbcY

OUR NEXT TOPIC WILL BE THE PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE