THE ARMERO TRAGEDY
Nevado del Ruiz
November 13, 1985
Armero, Colombia
On November 13, 1985, Colombia´Nevado del Ruiz, South America´most
notherly active volcano, erupted close to midnight. The town of Armero,
fifty miles from Colombia´capital, Bogotá, was completely covered by mudflows,
killing 21.000 of its population of 28.700. In all there were 23.000 deaths, 5.000 injuries.
and the destruction of more than 5.000 homes.
Very often the past simple ends in ED (regular verbs)
Example: I work in a travel agency now. Before that I worked in a shop.
We invited them to the party, but they decided not to come
Some verbs double consonant when they end in vowel + consonant.
Example: Stop - stopped plan - planned
prefer - preferred Regret - regretted
The verbs end in L have LL before ED
Example: travel - travelled cancel - cancelled
The verbs end in a consonant + Y, changes Y for I and add ed
Example: study - studied carry - carried
But many verbs are irregular. The past does not end in ED. Example
Be (am, is, are ) Was - were
Write Wrote
Forget Forgot
See Saw
Go Went
In questions and negative we use did - didn`t + infinitive
Affirmative
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Negative
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Interrogative
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You enjoyed the movie
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You didn`t enjoy the movie
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Did you enjoy the movie? Yes .I did
No, I didn`t
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They ate hamburgers
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They didn`t eat hamburgers
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Did they eat hamburger? Yes, they did.
No they didn`t
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She went to the park
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She didn`t go to the park
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Did she go to the park? Yes, she did
No she didn`t
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