In this ESL grammar lesson, students learn how to say questions in the past tense. Students then practice answering various past tense questions by writing past tense sentences.
To form a question in the past tense, we use the auxiliary verb “did” followed by the subject and the base form of the main verb. This structure is simple and helps clarify that the action or event occurred in the past.
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The English grammar lesson below teaches students how to form questions in the past tense in a clear and simple manner that is easy for beginner English learners to understand. Our series of ESL grammar lessons on subjects and verbs introduce these concepts and reinforce them through helpful and instructive exercises.
This lesson is available for free download, and you can download many more English grammar lessons focusing on basic English tenses (present tense, present continuous tense, past tense, future tense) in our comprehensive, beginner-level ESL grammar textbook Great, Great Grammar! (Book 2: Tenses).
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