the second column for affirmative statements only. Negative, no, did I eat, no that's a question, in the negative I didn't eat. OK? Did you eat? Did he eat? Did she eat? Did it eat? Did we eat? Did you eat? Did they eat? So notice we only use the irregular part for affirmative statements, I ate. To make questions invert the position of the subject and the auxiliary did. I did not eat, you did not eat, he did not eat, she did not eat, we did not eat, you did not eat, they did not (or didn't) eat. So to make past statements in the negative with irregular verbs, I did not eat, column 1. To make negatives we use the auxiliary did, followed by not, followed by the compliment of the verb. And this is the only place where we use column 2. I ate, you ate, he ate, she ate, it ate, we ate, you ate, they ate. So to make affirmative statements in the past simple with irregular verbs, take a subject I and then the word from column 2. The third column is the past participle and for other tenses. How to use them I will explain more in a minute. The second column is for the past simple and in this tense we need to use the words from the second column. The first column is the compliment, the infinitive without to. OK the irregular verbs for example to eat: eat, ate, eaten. How to form the past simple with irregular verbs.
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