How do we use pay in the past?
The past tense of 'to pay' is paid. I pay the grocer every time I go to his shop. I paid the grocer yesterday. I have paid the grocer many times this year. We pay for services and we pay for almost everything we consume nowadays. Read this short story to see how to use the irregular verb pay in context. Paid to do nothing Getting paid to do nothing is a dream for most people but it happened to me once. I was a teacher in a state school and was paid quite well to teach and had been paid by that school for six years. So how was I paid to do nothing at all? I was also paid to drive coaches in my spare time and the school asked me to drive the coach to the ski resort and I accepted. FYI the ski resort was only 20 minutes away from the school. I drove up the mountain road paying attention all the way. I parked and paid to park for the week. I took my skis and went to the hotel and it was my job to pay for the hotel so I paid them. For the next week, I skied every day and I didn't have to pay to ski because I was a teacher. Officially I was being paid to keep an eye on the students but they were all over 18 years old and were fantastic guys and fully responsible. On the third day as I sat in the glorious sunshine on a terrace on the mountain, I realized that the coach company was paying me for a whole week: the school was paying me for the whole week and I was doing nothing at all. I was being paid double salary to do nothing except sit in the sun. Watch and learn the irregular verb 'to pay' in an easy-to-understand context
The past tense of 'to pay' is paid. I pay the grocer every time I go to his shop. I paid the grocer yesterday. I have paid the grocer many times this year. We pay for services and we pay for almost everything we consume nowadays. Read this short story to see how to use the irregular verb pay in context. Paid to do nothing Getting paid to do nothing is a dream for most people but it happened to me once. I was a teacher in a state school and was paid quite well to teach and had been paid by that school for six years. So how was I paid to do nothing at all? I was also paid to drive coaches in my spare time and the school asked me to drive the coach to the ski resort and I accepted. FYI the ski resort was only 20 minutes away from the school. I drove up the mountain road paying attention all the way. I parked and paid to park for the week. I took my skis and went to the hotel and it was my job to pay for the hotel so I paid them. For the next week, I skied every day and I didn't have to pay to ski because I was a teacher. Officially I was being paid to keep an eye on the students but they were all over 18 years old and were fantastic guys and fully responsible. On the third day as I sat in the glorious sunshine on a terrace on the mountain, I realized that the coach company was paying me for a whole week: the school was paying me for the whole week and I was doing nothing at all. I was being paid double salary to do nothing except sit in the sun. Watch and learn the irregular verb 'to pay' in an easy-to-understand context