Past Simple use in short stories by W S Maugham

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Irregular verbs include eat, sit, lend, and keep, among many others. Some paradigms are based on obsolete root words, or roots that have changed meaning. Others are derived from old umlaut patterns that changes inphonemic structure and grammar have distorted (keep ~ kept is one such example). Some are unclear in origin, and may date back to Proto-Indo-European times.

How to form the past simple for regular verbs. To make affirmative, positive statements, take a subject I, then take the compliment, the verb in the infinitive without to and add ...ed. So for this example we are going to use the verb to jump. So jump plus ...ed jumped. So past simple affirmative of jump, I jumped. Notice the pronunciation jumped not jump...ed, jumped. Jump...ed is a very common mistake, particularly among the students. So be careful of that.

Lucrare de licenta despre Past Simple use in short stories by W S Maugham

Contents

Introduction.............3

Chapter one...........4
1.1 General characteristics of Past Simple Tense in English......4
1.2 The verb in past peculiarities.........5
1.3 Counterparts of past simple tense......8

Chapter two...........15
2.1 Practical definitions of Past Simple in English.........15
2.2 W. S. Maugham and his activity as a writer and his written works...............22
2.3 Analysis of examples of 1`Past Simple in short stories by W. S. Maugham............26

Conclusion..........29
Bibliography........30
Appendix...........32