Past simple: played, went and did

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Look at these scenes from yesterday: we use the past simple to tell a story about a finished time. The pictures show actions; yesterday tells us when they happened, so we need past forms. Tom played football yesterday: play is a regular verb, and its past form here is played. We add e d to play; Tom played and his friends played use the same past form. Lucy went to the park yesterday: go is irregular, so its past form is went, not go with e d. Learn go and went together; irregular verbs do not follow the usual rule. Now make a negative sentence: Lucy did not go to the park, or Lucy didn’t go to the park. To ask a question, say: Did Lucy go to the park yesterday? Notice the order: did, Lucy, go. Did already marks the past, so go stays in its base form; we do not say did Lucy went. The same happens with play: Tom didn’t play and Did Tom play? We practise play and go. Your turn: Mia went to school yesterday; use she to make a negative sentence and a question about the same day. Keep yesterday in both sentences and choose the correct form of go after did; pause the video and try. She didn’t go to school yesterday; the question is: Did she go to school yesterday? Both use go. Did carries the past in the negative and the question, so the main verb returns to its base form.