tenses, present tenses, past tenses, future tensesWe use the past simple to talk about finished states, events and actions in the past.Last year we studied the lives of the ancient Greeks in History.Neil Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon.Irregular verbsMany common verbs have irregular past forms.go - went have - had take - tookThe verb to be has two past simple forms.I / He / She / It was at school yesterday. You / We / They were at school yesterday. I / He / She / It was not (wasn’t) at school yesterday. You / We / They were not (weren’t) at school yesterday. Was I / he / she / it at school yesterday? – Yes, I / he / she / it was.