 Verbs and past tense regular and irregular verbs Simple present use for basic information about our lives. I Am a student or use for things that happen regularly. I go to school every day Simple past Use for things that happened and finished in the past I was tired yesterday when I was a child. I went to school with my brother Regular verbs how to form the simple past tense Regular verbs follow regular rules If the base form ends in a consonant add ed talk plus ed equals talked I talked to my friend yesterday If the base form ends in e add only d Use plus d equals used. I Used a pin to write my name If the base form ends in a consonant plus y change to ied Carry minus the y plus ied equals carried The man carried his child Here's a chart showing the present tense of many verbs the past tense and then the rule we use to change those verbs Irregular verbs how to form the simple past tense Here's a chart showing irregular verbs. They do not follow regular rules for example be in In the present tense such as I am you are he or she is we are They are becomes was in the past tense. I was he she was Or were you were we were they were Go in the present tense becomes went in the past tense Have becomes had and do becomes did There are also negative verbs and the present tense do not plus main verb is I do not you do not he she does not we do not or they do not Such as I do not eat meat in The past tense you would say did not plus the main verb. I did not You did not he she did not we did not they did not I Did not eat meat yesterday You notice that the main verb does not change to past tense