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The last quarter century of his life was dedicated to advances in aviation.

1. What was considered to be Alexander Graham Bell’s greatest invention?
2. What did Bell dedicate the last years of his life for………………………

3. Why did he investigate the science of acoustics?
4. How many years did Bell dedicate to aviation?

B. Simple Past Tense
The simple past is a verb tense that is used to talk about things that happened or existed before

now.

Time signals/ Adverb of time:

- yesterday - last Januay - in 1998

- two days ago - last

- …..ago - this morning

Pattern

Subject + V2+ Object

Subject + was/were + Complement

Affirmative Question Negative

I worked hard. Did I work hard? I did not work hard.
You were smart Were you smart? You were not smart.

She/He was smart. Was she/he smart? She/he was not smart.

Note:
Contradicted negative:

did not ----- didn’t
Negative question:

Did I not work hard? Or Didn’t I work hard?

Other example:
- He was an excellent pilot.

- I graduated high school in 2016.

- Did she know what we did last night?

- We didn’t have time for lunch because we were in a hurry.

- Kayla sang the song very beautifully.

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