สรุปวิธีการใช้ Past Simple Tenses ภาษาอังกฤษ
จะใช้ simple past tense เมื่อบอกว่าสิ่งนั้นเกิดขึ้นเมื่อใด ดังนั้น จึงจำเป็นต้องใช้คำที่บอกเวลาแน่นอนในอดีตด้วยเสมอ
- ความถี่: often, sometimes, always
I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
I often brought my lunch to school. - เวลาในอดีตที่เจาะจง: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
We saw a good film last week.
Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.
She finished her work atseven o’clock
I went to the theatre last night - เวลาในอดีตที่ไม่เจาะจง: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago
People lived in caves a long time ago.
She played the piano when she was a child.
หมายเหตุ: คำว่า ago เป็นคำที่เป็นประโยชน์มากในการบอกเวลาในอดีต จะถูกวางไว้หลังคำบอกเวลา เช่น a week ago, three years ago, a minute ago เป็นต้น
แต่มีรูปแบบกาลที่ผ่านมาที่ไม่สม่ำเสมอมากมายในภาษาอังกฤษ ต่อไปนี้คือคำกริยาผิดปกติที่พบบ่อยที่สุดในภาษาอังกฤษ พร้อมด้วยรูปแบบอดีตกาล:
Base form | Past tense |
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be begin break bring buy build choose come cost cut do draw drive eat feel find get give go have hear hold keep know leave lead let lie lose make mean meet pay put run say sell send set sit speak spend stand take teach tell think understand wear win write |
was/were began broke brought bought built chose came cost cut did drew drove ate felt found got gave went had heard held kept knew left led let lay lost made meant met paid put ran said sold sent set sat spoke spent stood took taught told thought understood wore won wrote |
เราใช้อดีตกาลเพื่อพูดคุยเกี่ยวกับ:
- something that happened once in the past:
I met my wife in 1983.
We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.
- something that happened several times in the past:
When I was a boy, I walked a mile to school every day.
We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.
- something that was true for some time in the past:
I lived abroad for ten years.
He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.
- we often use expressions with ago with the past simple:
I met my wife a long time ago.