English - Grammar - Verb Tenses - Simple past tense - Past Tense Rules
6 steps: (1) Past tense = something that already happened (yesterday, last week, ago). (2) REGULAR verbs: add -ed: 'walk → walked, play → played.' (3) Spelling: if verb ends in -e, just add -d: 'like → liked, dance → danced.' (4) If verb ends in consonant+y, change y to i, add -ed: 'carry → carried,