Ancient history

What is the meaning of past tense ordinary form?

Past tense in English is used to talk about actions or events that happened at a specific time in the past. The ordinary form of past tense is mostly created by adding -ed to the base form of the verb. Sometimes verbs have their own irregular forms for the past tense.

Let’s look at some forms of the past tense:

Regular verbs:

Present: Jump

Past: Jumped

Present: Paint

Past: Painted

Present: Cough

Past: Coughed

Irregular verbs:

Present: Go

Past: Went

Present: Do

Past: Did

Present: Have

Past: Had

The past tense ordinary form is commonly used in storytelling and historical contexts to describe actions and events that took place in the past, as well as in conversations to talk about completed actions.