This flashcard explains the use of the past simple tense for completed actions that happened once in the past, demonstrating the past form 'gave' for the irregular verb 'give'.
Tämä muistilappu selittää menneen yksinkertaisen aikamuodon (past simple) käyttöä, kun puhutaan kerran menneisyydessä tapahtuneista täydellisistä toimista, ja osoittaa epäsäännöllisen verbin "give" menneen muodon "gave".
| Task | Luciano Pavarotti ________ (to give) his last performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. |
|---|---|
| Answer | 2 |
| a | had given |
| b | gave |
| c | was giving |
| d | had been given |
| comment | In this test sentence we are given some time-signals that are typical for the past simple tense: ‘last…’ and the definite year - 2006. We use the past tense to talk about something that happened once in the past - a completed action in a time before now. Duration is not important: Sally watched TV last night.; Did you play tennis at weekends?. For regular verbs, we add -ed to the base form of the verb (work – worked) or -d if the verb already ends in -e (move – moved). In the test sentence we need to form the past form of the irregular verb ‘give’. Many verbs are irregular and we have to learn them: arise – arose – arisen; bet – bet – bet; freeze – froze – frozen; etc. The past form of the irregular verb ‘give’ is ‘gave’. Therefore, we are to choose ANSWER 2 (gave). |
| topic | past tenses |
| level | 1 |
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