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Lesson 2: Verb tensesThe past tense
The past tense in English describes events that have already happened. How to form the past tense in English: take the present tense of the word and add the suffix "-ed"" . For example, to turn the verb "walk" into the past tense, add "-ed" and you get "walked."
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- But present should be i am walking to the moon, right?(14 votes)
- That would be present continuous. I think David explained the 'continuous ' on another video.(8 votes)
- what is usage of
at
.(12 votes)- At implies a particular point in space or time. It is very specific. "She was at the police station at2:30AM when the call came in." "He was at his job in the factory." "They were in the water at dawn."(10 votes)
- What are energy points for?(3 votes)
- Energy points are for your convenience, so that you can keep track of your progress. You can't turn them in down at the gas station for a chili dog.(12 votes)
- Hi, Is there a video on past continuous, past perfect on Khan academy?
Thanks in advance.🤗(6 votes)- You can learn about those in the section titled “Verb aspect: simple, progressive, and perfect”. There’s also the search function at the top of all screens in Khan Academy which you can use to look up any topic in which you are interested.(4 votes)
- but it doesn't work with eat if you add ed to eat it will be eated witch doesn't make sence the way you wright eat in the past is ate.(2 votes)
- this is an irregular... you just have to learn these, in all languages.(6 votes)
- "I'm walking to the moon on foot, try and stop me!" XD(4 votes)
- I walk to the moon with rocket launchers attached to my sneakers.(4 votes)
- Your a good at teaching it help's me thank u(3 votes)
- in1:50, he says: "and most of the time when you wanna form the past tense out of a word..."
WHY MOST OF THE TIME?
Could someone give me an example?(2 votes)- OK. Here's an example. "She walks." (present). "She walked." (past). "They run." (present). "They ran." (past).(3 votes)
- Simple Past, Past Simple, Past Form, Past Tense, are same? & What is the differences between Past Tense & Past Participle? I know the two types Participles Present & Past. Am just being confused on those i mentioned on the top. -Help Prof David :)(3 votes)
- As you suggest, you are just being confused.
There are three "tenses" and four "aspects". This is about language.
The words have "forms." This is about how things are spelt and pronounced.
There are two kinds of participles. The present particuple usually ends in "_ing" The past participle is most often indistinguishable from the simple past tense form.(0 votes)
Video transcript
- [Voiceover] Hello, friends, and welcome to the distant past, because today we're talking
about the past tense, which refers to stuff
that has already happened. There are many ways to
form the past tense, but for now I just wanna
focus on the basic version, which is just adding "-ed". So if you take a word like "walk" as in, "I walk to the store," no, not the store, to the moon. I'm going to the moon on foot, try and stop me. That's in the present tense, but if I wanted to put that in the past, I would say, "I walked to the moon." I've got very strong legs and good shoes. So this sentence is happening now. It's the present. This sentence happened earlier. It's the past. SO, the simplest way to figure out whether or not something
is in the past tense or if you want to put
something in the past tense, is this thing, this "ed" ending. So you go from "walk" to "walked", "talk" to "talked", "sneeze" to "sneezed", "jump" to "jumped" and "open" to "opened" So, if it doesn't end with
with an "e", you add an "ed". If it does end with an "e", you just add the "d". That's how to form the past tense. That's what the past tense does. It's stuff that's already happened, and most of the time when you wanna form the past tense out of a word, you just add "ed". You can learn anything. David, out.