Simple Past Tense

But there are a lot of irregular past tense forms in English. Here are the most common irregular verbs in English, with their past tense forms:

Base form	Past tense
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

We use the past tense to talk about:

• 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.

Simple Present Tense

In English Grammar, the Present Tense is used to talk about something that is going on now(currently) or that is true now and at any time. Present Tense is of four types:

• Simple Present Tense
• Present Continuous Tense
• Present Perfect Tense
• Present Perfect Continuous Tense

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Simple Present Tense

The simple present tense uses the same verb form as the root form of the verb. We use the simple present tense in the following conditions:

• To show a fact or something that is always true
• For activities that are done daily -regularly or habitually
• To express thoughts, feelings, opinions and beliefs
• For an action or event that is planned to happen in the future
• Used with a selected few adverbs to indicate something that happens rarely
• Used in news, reported speech such as in sports commentaries, a narration of books and stories etc
• It is also used with schedules, plans and programmes
• It is also used to give instructions

TYPES Of ANTONYM

You may be interested to know that there are three different kinds of antonyms. Let's take a look at each one:

Complementary: Complementary antonyms have no middle ground. Examples include:

• boy - girl, off - on, night - day, entrance - exit, exterior - interior, true - false, dead - alive, push - pull, pass - fail

Relational: These are similar to complementary antonyms, except that both must exist for them to be antonyms of each other. Check out these examples:

• above - below, doctor - patient, husband - wife, servant - master, borrow - lend, give - receive, predator - prey, buy - sell, instructor - pupil

Graded: These antonyms deal with levels of comparison and they can be two words on a scale. Many are relative terms, which can be interpreted differently by different people. Examples include:

• young - elderly, hard - easy, happy - wistful, wise - foolish, fat - slim, warm - cool, early - late, fast - slow, dark - pale

Add a Prefix to Create an Antonym

Sometimes, you don't need to search for another word entirely. It's possible to create an antonym simply by adding a prefix to the word.

Some examples of antonyms created by adding the prefix dis- are:

• Agree → disagree
• Appear → disappear
• Belief → disbelief
• Honest → dishonest

Adding the prefix in- can make the following opposites:

• Tolerant → intolerant
• Decent → indecent
• Discreet → indiscreet
• Excusable → inexcusable

Using the prefix mis- create antonyms like:

• Behave → misbehave
• Interpret → misinterpret
• Lead → mislead
• Trust → mistrust

Examples of antonyms made by adding the prefix un- are:

• Likely → unlikely
• Able → unable
• Fortunate → unfortunate
• Forgiving → unforgiving

By adding the prefix non- you can make these antonyms:

• Entity → nonentity
• Conformist → nonconformist
• Payment → nonpayment
• Sense → nonsense