Past simple negative

WORKSHEET 14

Name ______________________________

1 Complete the sentences.

3 Unscramble the sentences.

a) didn't / to / school / Kate / yesterday. / go

Kate didn't go to school yesterday.

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b) breakfast / have / Peter / morning. / this / didn't
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c) lunch / home / I / have / didn't / at / yesterday.
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didn't sing
didn't play

didn't invent
didn't discover

didnt sing opera, he sang

a) Bob Marley _____________
reggae songs.

d) speak / They / Spanish. / didn't

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e) the / like / didn't / movie. / We
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b) Columbus __________________________
Africa, he discovered America.
c) Isaac Peral _______________________ the
telephone, he invented the submarine.
d) Maradona _____________________ tennis,

4 Write the negative form of

these sentences.
a) We played soccer last Sunday.

We didn't play soccer last Sunday.

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b) I went to the park with my friends.

he played soccer.

I didn't go to the park with my friends.

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Santillana Educacin, S.L. / Richmond Publishing, 2009

STOP

AFFIRMATIVE

NEGATIVE

I
You
He
She
It
We
You
They

I
You
He
She
It
We
You
They

played.

c) She watched a horror movie on TV.

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d) I cooked spaghetti for dinner.

didn't play.

To make negative sentences in the

past simple, use did not (didn't)
+ the verb in the base form.

2 Write the negative form.

a) I studied.

I didn't study.
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b) You went.

You didn't go.

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e) They walked to school.
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5 Complete these sentences with

information about yourself.
a) When I was young, I didn't like eating
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b) Last Sunday, I didn't go to the ___________
_______________ with my friends.

c) He played. _________________________

c) Yesterday, I didn't play _________________

d) She sang.

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d) When I was young, I didn't speak ________

e) It rained.

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