Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
To make a negative sentence in the past simple form, they simple add did + not before the infinitive form of the verb. For example, I did not meet Chris yesterday.
El pasado simple [past simple] es el tiempo usado para expresar situaciones, eventos y acciones que ocurrieron en el pasado.

Cuando se utiliza en su forma negativa, el verbo niega algo sobre el sujeto.

FORM
El pasado simple de los verbos regulares e irregulares* en su forma negativa tiene esta estructura:
Subject + did + not + verb + …

Did es la forma pasada del verbo do.
La forma abreviada del negativo es didn’t.
SUBJECT DID + NOT VERB SHORT FORM
I did not work didn’t
You did not work didn’t
He did not work didn’t
She did not work didn’t
It did not work didn’t
We did not work didn’t
You did not work didn’t
They did not work didn’t
*Preguntas y negativos de los verbos irregulares tienen la misma estructura que los verbos regulares.

EXAMPLE
I didn’t plant some trees yesterday.
I didn’t study about plants for the exams.
The school didn’t decide that all students should do exercise.
They didn’t travel all over the place.
USE
Usamos el pasado simple, en la forma negativa, para negar:

Acciones cortas, situaciones y eventos que no ocurrieron y terminaron en el pasado;
Eventos repetidos y hábitos que no tuvieron lugar en el pasado;
Eventos del pasado que no ocurrieron y usamos expresiones de tiempo como: two weeks ago, last year, in 2010, yesterday…
SUMMARY
Usamos el pasado simple [past simple], en su forma negativa, para negar situaciones que ocurrieron en el pasado y ahora han terminado.

Cuando usamos el pasado simple en negativo empezamos con el sujeto seguido por did not y el verbo en infinitivo.

Por ejemplo:
— “They didn’t work on an important project yesterday.” = Usamos el pasado simple para expresar un evento del pasado que no ocurrió.

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Simple past : Negative form

To form the negative of a sentence in the Simple Past you need to use the past form of the auxiliary verb ‘do’ – that is ‘Forming the Negative of the simple past

To form the negative of a sentence in the Simple Past you need to use the past form of the auxiliary verb ‘do’ – that is ‘did‘ + ‘not‘ + the infinitive of the verb you want to use. For example – I did not play.

The negative of the simple past
We often contract did and not into one word – didn’t – for example:

I didn’t play
They didn’t play
She didn’t play
Notice that did and didn’t are invariable – they do not change no matter which pronoun you use.

The Same rule applies for irregular verbs:

Let’s look at leave,come and teach:

I didn’t leave
We didn’t come
He didn’t teach
Here’s an example with the very common irregular verb ‘to go’

She went to school yesterday.
Becomes in the negative:

She did not go to school yesterday.
Remember that ‘went’ is the past form of ‘go‘. I went I didn’t go

Regular verbs:

Very simple!

She talked to Martin last week.
She did not talk to Martin last week.
You try…
Make the sentences with the negative Simple Past

They studied English in 2006.
Tim played golf when he was at university.
(answers below)

Answers:

They did not study ..
Tim did not play….
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
Simple past Negatives English Grammar Aprende con Victor
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