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Making Negative and Interrogative Sentences in Simple Present Tense

To form the negative sentences, we add does not if the subject is singular and use the root form
of the verb:
Mohan does not run in the park.
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She does not stitch the school dresses.
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And we add do not if the subject if plural.
I do not run fast.
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They do not play cricket.
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To form the interrogative sentence, we use does with singular subjects and do with plural subjects.
And put a question mark at the end of the sentence.

Does Mohan run in the park?
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Do they play cricket?
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Simple Past Tense

The simple past tense is used to talk about the events and actions that took place earlier. In simple
past tense.

Uses of Simple Past Tense

The simple past tense is used to:

 show a regular action in the past.
l Neeraj went to college every day.

 show an action that started and ended in the past.

l Bunty ate cereals in the morning.
Comparing simple present and simple past tenses.

Simple Present Simple Past

He runs every morning. He ran yesterday morning.
(This is a routine or something that the (This is an action which the subject carried
subject always does.) out and completed yesterday morning.)

Formation of Simple Past Tense
Some verbs form the simple past tense by adding -ed to their root form.

For example: sail — sailed jump — jumped

Some verbs that end with -e, add -d.
For example: tie — tied agree — agreed

Some verbs double the last letter and add -ed.

bat — batted spot — spotted

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