STRATEGY: USING THE SIMPLE PAST
Our boss was absolutely delighted and my colleagues were equally pleased
with the choice of venue.
There were eighteen of us but there wasn’t enough food
We had a wonderful evening, even though a couple of my colleagues didn’t
really have enough to eat.
Although the meal started before seven, it finished after midnight.
During the meal last Thursday, the waiter brought out a cake, lit the candles
and sang ‘Happy Birthday’.
The waiter
didn’t cut
the cake into slices because we
didn’t want
to eat it in
the restaurant. He
didn’t mind
at all that we took the cake away with us and
didn’t eat
it straightaway/
The waiter was able to re-
arrange the tables but couldn’t find enough chairs
for everyone so some had to stand.
However, even irregular past
tenses have regular
negative
forms
STRATEGY: USING THE SIMPLE PAST
Our boss was absolutely delighted and my colleagues were equally pleased
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