In this course, “Simple Past Tense,” you will learn how to form and use the simple past. You will see that there are a lot of irregular verbs in the simple past, but there are some patterns you can use to help you remember. You will learn about spelling changes when you add an “-ed” ending, as well as how to form negatives and questions in the past. You will also learn about object pronouns and some other forms of adjectives to describe and make comparisons.
This course is part of the Learn English: Beginning Grammar Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Simple Past with Regular & Irregular Verbs
Simple Past Negative & Object Pronouns
Simple Past Question Forms
More Useful Grammar Forms
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This course was very useful for me. I learnt new words and sentence structure from here. I think, If it is good to add a session to how to make questions using past tense.
i am going to share my experiences . i am very glad to join coursera. The teacher is amazing ,her videos are the best .i can easily understand .thank u so much teacher and also Coursera
Thai is very good for beginer student but I sugesst that reading part would be better if it be as elctronic exersie
After finishing 3 courses which part of the Specialization, I learned a lot of vocabulary and grammar tenses. Would recommend to others who is learning English as a second language.
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