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Simple Past Tense (Did) – With Explanations Pictures and Exercises

Simple past tense (past simple tense) is a verb tense that describes completed actions or past habits before now. It is also used to talk about a series of events in the past. “Did” is the helping verb of simple past tense. For affirmative (positive) sentences we use past simple form of a verb.

⬤ Formation of simple past tense

For affirmative sentences we use the formation of “verb + ed” . For negative sentences and questions we use the auxiliary “did” or “did not”. See the chart below to learn the structure of simple past tense.

Examples with Pictures Dialogue exercise Sentence scramble game Translation exercise

⬤ Which auxiliary (helping verb) to use for simple past tense?

The auxiliary verb in simple past tense is “ did “. However we use “ was-were ” to talk about a state in the past. Examples:

• I walked in the park.
• I didn’t walk in the park.
• Did you walk in the park?
• I was in the park.
• I wasn’t in the park.
• Were you in the park?

⬤ Positive (Affirmative) sentences

For the formation of positive sentences in simple past tense we add “ -ed “, “ -ied ” or just “ -d ” to the verb. We do not use “ did ” for the positive sentences.

• I asked a question.
• She studied maths.
• She cleaned her room.
• Jack repaired the car last week.
• A traffic accident happened yesterday.

⬤ Negative sentences

For the formation of negative sentences in simple past tense we use “ not ” together with “ did “. The short form is “ didn’t ”

• He did not want tea.
• We didn’t wait for the bus.
• I didn’t use your pen.
• Susan didn’t lie.

⬤ Interrogative sentences

For the formation of question sentences (interrogative) in simple past tense we put “ did ” before the subject.

• Did you enjoy your holiday.
• Did she write an email.
• Where did Yuto go?
• What did Ali want?

⬤ Sentence forms in simple past tense

⬤ what are the regular verbs.

Regular verbs are the verbs that gets “ -ed “, “ -ied ” or “ -d ” for the the past simple forms.

⬤ What are the irregular verbs?

Irregular verbs are the verbs which don’t get “ -ed “, “ -ied ” or “ -d ” to form past simple form or past participle form. There are a number of irregular verbs which needs to be memorized. Because the formation has no standard rule. Some verbs have the same form as bare form, past simple form or past participle form. For example “cut, put, let, hit”.

• (+) I  visit ed  my uncle. 
• (-) I  didn’t visit  my uncle yesterday. 
• (?) Did you visit your uncle yesterday? 
• (+) They found the cat.
• (-) They didn’t find the cat.
• (?) Did they find the cat?

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⬤ Explanations and usages of Simple Past Tense

Let’s go on with the explanations, usages and time adverbs of simple past tense:

⬤ 1- Finished actions in the past

Simple Past Tense is used to describe a finished action in a specific time in the past. Examples: I  watched  a film yesterday.  I  did n’t watch a film yesterday.  Last year, I  traveled  to Italy.  Last year, I  did n’t travel to Italy.  She  washed  her hands.  She  did n’t wash her hands.  I bought a hat yesterday. Did you like your cake? Where did you go? What did Ethan say? How did she get 100 points in the exam?

⬤ 2- A series of finished actions.

Simple Past Tense is also used to describe past actions that happen one after the other. The series of actions are all expressed in simple past tense. Examples: I  went out,  walked  to the park, and  watched  the sky silently.

He  arrived  from the airport at 11:00,  looked  for someone to ask the way, and called  a taxi.

⬤ 3- Past habits

We can also use simple past tense to talk about habits in the past. Examples: I  always played  basketball when I was a child. He  often played  the guitar. They never  went  to school, they always  skipped . She  worked  at the hospital after school.

⬤ Using “was”, “were” to talk about past states.

If you want to talk about a past state or condition we use “was, were”. The negative form is “was not, were not” or “wasn’t weren’t”. To make questions we use “was/were” before the subject.

⬤ I lived in London. ⬤ I was in London.

Examples (did) Sally worked at the hospital. Sally didn’t work at the hospital. Did Sally work at the hospital? Where did Sally work?

Examples (was-were) Sally was at the hospital. Sally wasn’t at the hospital. Was Sally at the hospital? Where was Sally?

⬤ What are the time expressions in simple past tense?

⬤ yesterday   I went to the cinema yesterday.  ⬤ last  week, last  year, last  Sunday, last month etc. He bought a car last week.  ⬤ two years ago , four days ago , three minutes  ago etc. I saw her five minutes ago. ⬤ in 1995, in 2003 etc. I had an accident in 2014.

⬤ Time adverbs exercise

You can see the simple past tense time adverbs below. Click on the cards and tell the meaning of them in your native language..

⬤ Images and example sentences

You can learn simple past tense with images and example sentences below.

⬤ A conversation example

Here is a dialogue to learn simple past tense. You can make similar conversations.

Did you win the match yesterday?

Yes, we did.

How was the game?

I don’t know.

What do you mean?

Didn’t you play?

Actually I didn’t.

I had a traffic accident

so I spent the night at a hospital.

We won the match.

My teammates dedicated the goals to me.

Well. Your team needs you. Get well soon.

⬤ Translate these sentences

You will see random examples of simple past tense below. Try to translate them into your own language.

⬤ Sentence scramble game

You will see scrambled words of simple past tense sentences. Click on them in order to make a sentence.

⬤ Example sentences about simple past tense

You can see many sentences below to learn simple past tense.

➔ 10 examples of about simple past tense

• I listened to the new pop album yesterday. It’s great.
• She liked the film but she didn’t like the music.
• There was a problem with the plug.
• I was happy to see her with a smile in her face.
• Her parents travelled by train from Istanbul to Moscow.
• I phoned you four times last night but you were out.
• There were many workers waiting outside.
• We walked along the beach yesterday. It was lovely.
• I had a problem. So I asked to my mother about it.
• Last week I was in Paris. I stayed in a hotel.

⬤ Questions and with answers

Read the questions and the answers below to learn how to use about simple past tense.

➔ 10 questions and answers about simple past tense

• Did you like the film? Yes, I liked it very much.
• Did they give her a present after the ceremony? Yes, they gave her a new camera.
• When did you start playing the guitar? I started playing the guitar when I was nine.
• Was there a guard at the door? No. They let us in.
• When did you leave school? I left school when I was sixteen.
• Who invented the radio? Guglielmo Marconi invented it.
• When did you give your first concert? We gave our first concert in a wedding in Liverpool.
• How many sandwiches did he eat? He ate 3 sandwiches.
• Were you with Sally when she had an accident? Yes, I was.
• What did she do with the book? She sat on a bench and started reading.

External resources: You can go to British Council page and study simple past tense , or watch a video from the popular movies about past simple tense .

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Past simple – questions

We can use past simple questions to ask about the past.

Did you have fun with your friends yesterday? Where did she go for her last holiday? What did they watch on TV last night?

How to use them

Use did and the verb, but don't change the verb to the past form.

Did you have a nice weekend? What did he learn at school yesterday? When did they see the film?

We usually add time words at the end.

Did they play a game yesterday ? Did you visit LearnEnglish Kids last week ? What did he have for dinner last night ?

We make yes or no answers with did or didn't .

Did you finish your homework? Yes, I did . Did your friend call you yesterday? No, she didn't .

We use did to ask question about the past. Here, I'll give example. We'll say "what did you eat for dinner last night?" We don't say "what did you ate for dinner last night?" I score 100 in the game!

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The past simple is a crucial part of the English language and is one of the toughest tenses to learn for beginners. In this reference, we’ll explain what the past simple is and how you can easily master it and improve your skills!

What is the Past Simple Tense?

The past simple, also known as the simple past tense, helps us talk about actions that happened in the past. It’s often used with adverbs and adverbial phrases (yesterday, last week, three years ago, etc.). The past simple helps you talk about completed actions that took place at a specific time in the past.

The past simple is formed by using the base form of the verb and adding -ed to the end (for regular verbs ). Irregular verbs, however, need to be memorized. Let’s take a look at how the past simple is formed and how to use it.

Past Simple Formula:

Subject + verb (base form) + -ed (for regular verbs) / did / have / was.

  How to Form the Past Simple

The past simple is formed by using the base form of the verb and adding -ed to the end (for regular verbs). For example, the verb “walk” becomes “walked” in the past simple tense.

It’s also used with the auxiliary verbs “did” and “have.” For example, “I did my homework” and “I have done my homework” are both in the past simple tense.

The past simple can also be used with the verb “be.” For example, “I was at the park yesterday” is in the past simple tense.

Common Irregular Verbs in the Past Simple

There are different irregular verbs in the past simple tense. The most common ones are go/went, do/did, have/had, and be/was. These verbs need to be memorized, as they do not follow the regular pattern of adding -ed to the end of the verb.

It’s important to note that some verbs can be both regular and irregular depending on the context. For example, the verb “read” can be regular or irregular depending on the sentence. “I read a book” is regular, but “I read the book” is irregular.

Past Simple vs. Past Participle

The past simple is often confused with the past participle. The past participle also helps us talk about completed actions in the past, but it is not used with adverbs or adverbial phrases . For example, “I have finished my homework” is in the past participle, but “I finished my homework yesterday” is in the past simple.

Examples of Past Simple Sentences

Here are some examples of sentences in the past simple:

• I went to the store yesterday.
• She did her homework last night.
• We had dinner at a restaurant last week.
• He was at the park yesterday.
• They read a book last month.

Uses of the Past Simple

The past simple helps us talk about completed actions that took place at a specific time in the past. It is also used to talk about habitual actions in the past, such as “I used to go to the park every weekend.” The past simple is also used to talk about past facts and past states. For example, “I knew her since we were kids” and “I lived in Hong Kong for 5 years”.

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• He told me he was at the park yesterday.
• I asked if she had done her homework.
• We wondered if they had read the book.
• She asked if he had gone to the store.
• They asked if we had had dinner at a restaurant.

Past simple can be hard to start, but once you understand the formula, it all falls into place. Remember that it's just your subject + verb + -ed (for regular verbs) / did / have / was.

So, there you have it! Now you know all about the past simple in English. With enough practice, you’ll be able to master the past simple and use it like a native speaker. Good luck!

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Simple Past Tense | Structure, Rules, Usage and Examples

Simple past tense, also known as past indefinite tense, allows us to talk about events or actions that happened in the past and are now completed. It’s a straightforward way of expressing that something occurred at a specific point in time before the present moment. Understanding the simple past tense is crucial when describing past events, narrating stories, or expressing historical facts. This tense expresses actions or states that have no connection to the present or future moments. In this article, we will explore the structure, rules, usage, and various examples of the simple past tense to help you better understand this important grammatical concept. So let’s get started!

What is Simple Past Tense?

Simple Past Tense is used to talk about actions or events that happened and were completed in the past. In simple words, it’s a way of expressing what happened before the current moment. This tense is formed by using the past form of the main verb , which is often formed by adding “ -ed ” to regular verbs, while irregular verbs have unique past forms. For regular verbs, the past tense follows a consistent pattern. For example, the base form “walk” becomes “walked” in the past tense. Irregular verbs, however, don’t follow the same pattern, and their past forms must be memorized. For instance, “go” becomes “went,” and “eat” becomes “ate.”

Simple past tense helps us communicate when something occurred and provides a clear timeline of events. For instance, “Yesterday, I walked to the store and bought some groceries.” Here, “walked” and “bought” are both in the simple past tense, indicating that these actions happened and were completed in the past. Simple Past Tense is used when the time of the action or event is clearly in the past, and there is no connection to the present. This tense doesn’t provide information about the duration of an action; it simply communicates that the action or event is completed.

For example:

• I ate pizza for lunch. (eat)
• We watched a movie last night. (watch)
• I studied for the exam all night. (study)
• He bought a new car last month. (buy)
• He fixed the broken window. (fix)

Negative Form:

To form the negative simple past tense, you generally use the auxiliary verb “did” followed by “not” (“did not” or “didn’t”), and then the base form of the main verb. it is essential to remember that the main verb remains in its base form (the infinitive form without “to”) when forming negative sentences in the simple past tense.

• Statement: He went to the store.
• Negative: He didn’t go to the store.
• She did not pass the exam.
• I did not see you at the party.
• He did not eat lunch at noon.
• We did not find the lost keys.
• The team didn’t win the game last night.

Interrogative Form:

Questions are formed by using the auxiliary verb “ did ” followed by the subject and the base form of the main verb.

• Statement: We watched a movie.
• Question: Did we watch a movie?
• Did he pass the exam ?
• Did they visit the museum ?
• Did he call you yesterday ?
• Did they find the lost keys ?
• Did you enjoy the movie last night ?

Structure of Simple Past Tense

Positive sentences:.

• They ate pizza for dinner.
• She read a book before bed.
• He bought a new car last month.

Negative Sentences:

• I didn’t eat breakfast this morning.
• I did not see that movie before.
• I did not finish my homework last night.

Interrogative Sentences (yes/no questions):

• Did you read the book?
• Did he call you last night?
• Did you finish your homework?

Interrogative Sentences (wh-questions):

Wh-word: (who, what, where, when, why, how)

• What did you eat for dinner?
• Where did they go on vacation?
• Why did she resign from her job?

Negative Interrogative Sentences:

• Did she not like the book?
• Did he not call you back?
• Did she not   finish her homework?

Simple Past Tense Timeline:

Simple Past Tense refers to actions completed in the past. It’s used to talk about specific, finished events or states that occurred before the present moment. It helps establish a clear timeframe for events that are no longer happening in the present.

| ——–Past——— | ——-Present——- >

He watched a movie. | (the action is completed before the present moment)

Simple Past Tense Time Words:

It’s important to note that the Simple Past Tense is often used with time expressions like yesterday, last year, in 2005, or specific periods in the past. They are essential in Simple Past Tense to specify when an action occurred. Here are some basic words and expressions that are often associated with the simple past tense:

Simple Past Tense Uses:

• Completed Actions: Use to talk about actions that started and finished in the past.
• Sequencing Events: Describe a series of completed events in chronological order.
• Habits or Routines in the Past: Discuss past routines or repeated actions.
• Past States: Express a state of being in the past.
• Changes Over Time: Explain how things were different in the past.
• Past Achievements: Share accomplishments or achievements that occurred in the past.
• Narrative Writing: Employ it for storytelling to recount past experiences.
• Reported Speech: Use it in a reported speech to convey what someone said.
• Biographical Information: Provide details about a person’s life story.
• Historical Events: Talk about specific events or occurrences in history.
• Time Expressions: Use words like “yesterday,” “last month,” or “in 2005.”
• Past Facts: Used for statements of fact in the past or past events in literature

Regular vs Irregular Verbs

The Simple past tense is formed by adding the past tense marker “-ed” to regular verbs or using the irregular form of the verb.

Regular Verbs:

Formation: Regular verbs follow a predictable pattern in the past tense. To form the Simple Past Tense for regular verbs, you typically add “-ed” to the base form of the verb.

• Walk (Base) → Walked (Simple Past)
• Play (Base) → Played (Simple Past)
• Talk (Base) → Talked (Simple Past)

In the Simple Past Tense, regular verbs follow a straightforward pattern by adding “-ed” to their base form.

Irregular Verbs:

Formation: Have unique past tense forms that don’t follow a predictable pattern.

• Go (Base) → Went (Simple Past)
• Eat (Base) → Ate (Simple Past)
• Take (Base) → Took (Simple Past)

Irregular verbs in the Simple Past Tense do not follow the regular “-ed” pattern. Instead, they have distinct forms that need to be memorized.

Simple Past Tense Rules:

• Regular Verbs: Add “-ed” to the base form for simple past tense. Example: Walk → Walked .
• Irregular Verbs: Have unique past forms. Example: Go → Went .
• Negative Form: Use “did not” + base verb. Example: I did not eat .
• Question Form: Begin with “Did” + base verb. Example: Did you finish?
• Base Verbs:  Use base verbs (V1) in negative and interrogative sentences.
• Time Words: Use words like yesterday, last week, or ago to indicate past time.
• Habitual Actions: Describe repeated past actions. Example: I always ate breakfast.
• Completed Actions: Express events that happened and finished. Example: I finished my homework.
• Series of Events: Narrate a sequence of actions. Example: He woke up , brushed , and had breakfast.

Simple Past Tense Chart with Examples

Simple past example sentences:.

• He studied for the exam all night.
• She didn’t pass the exam.
• She watched a movie yesterday.
• We ate pizza for dinner.
• Did you see that movie before?
• I traveled to Paris last summer.
• She read a book in one sitting.
• He didn’t buy a new car.
• We went to the beach on Sunday.
• Did he forget your birthday?
• She called her friend after school.
• The children didn’t go to bed early.
• The team didn’t win the match.
• We visited the museum yesterday.
• They wrote a letter to their teacher.
• I had a great time at the party.

Simple Past Exercises

Choose the correct option to complete each sentence.

1) Yesterday, I ______ to the store.

a) go  b) goes  c) went  d) going

2) She ______ her keys at home.

a) forgets  b) forgetting  c) forgot  d) forget

3. He ______ his favorite book last night.

a) reads  b) reading  c) read  d) readed

4. My parents ______ in London when I was born.

a) lives  b) live  c) lived  d) living

5. We ______ the exam last week.

a) pass  b) passes  c) passed  d) passing

6. Sarah ______ her lunch in the cafeteria.

a) eats  b) eating  c) ate  d) eat

7. They ______ to the museum on Saturday.

a) go  b) going  c) went  d) goes

8. Last summer, I ______ to Italy.

a) travel  b) traveling  c) travels  d) traveled

9. We ______ our friends at the restaurant.

a) meet  b) meeting  c) met  d) meets

10. Last year, I ______ my own business.

a) start  b) starting  c) starts  d) started

• d) traveled

Q1: What is Simple Past Tense?

Simple Past Tense is a grammatical tense used to express actions or events that occurred and were completed in the past. It is formed by adding the past tense marker “-ed” to regular verbs or using irregular forms for irregular verbs.

Q2: How is Simple Past Tense formed?

For regular verbs, the Simple Past is formed by adding “-ed” to the base form of the verb (e.g., walk → walked, play → played). Irregular verbs, however, have unique past tense forms (e.g., go → went, eat → ate).

Q3: When do we use Simple Past Tense?

Simple Past Tense is used to narrate completed actions or events in the past. It can express a one-time occurrence, a habitual action, or an action that was in progress for a specific duration in the past.

Q4: What are the common time expressions used with Simple Past Tense?

Time expressions such as yesterday, last week, in 2005, and specific dates are commonly used with Simple Past Tense to provide a timeframe for the past action.

Q5: How do we form negative sentences in Simple Past Tense?

To form negative sentences, the auxiliary verb “did not” (didn’t) is used, followed by the base form of the main verb. For example, “I did not go to the store.”

Q6: How are questions formed in Simple Past Tense?

Questions are formed by using the auxiliary verb “did” followed by the base form of the main verb. For example, “Did you finish your homework?”

Q7: Give example sentences of simple past tense.

Here are some basic examples of simple past tense:

• I visited Paris last summer.
• It rained heavily last night.
• Did they arrive on time?
• Did she find her lost keys?

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Past Tense: Negative Sentences with Verbs

Use “did not” to make a negative past tense sentence in English. “Did not” goes with every subject.

Use the following pattern.

Subject + did not + verb….

Compare some present tense and past tense sentences.

You can also use the contraction “didn’t”.

• I didn’t eat breakfast.
• She didn’t call me yesterday.
• You didn’t finish your work.
• They didn’t like the movie.

Remember that contractions are very common in spoken English. However, it is more common to use the long form when you are writing something formal or professional. So, it is okay to use contractions if you are writing a message to a friend or a comment on a blog.

This grammar point is very important. Practice it a lot because you will need to use it often when you speak English.

Example Sentences

• I did not eat breakfast this morning.
• I did not go to the gym yesterday.
• I didn’t sleep well last night.
• I didn’t play poker with my friends last week.
• You did not call me back.
• You did not ruin it.
• You didn’t do a good job.
• You didn’t eat a lot.
• We did not go on the trip.
• We did not find a solution to the problem.
• We didn’t see her at the party.
• We didn’t turn off the TV all night.
• He did not get a good score on the test.
• He did not win the competition.
• He didn’t finish in 1st place.
• Chris didn’t like the hotel.
• She did not sing with everybody else.
• She did not like the event.
• She didn’t go to the meeting.
• Jane didn’t attend the seminar last month.
• It did not finish on time.
• The machine did not work well.
• It didn’t snow a lot last winter.
• The coffee machine didn’t break yesterday.
• They did not like the performance.
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A) Did you hurt your finger? B) Yes, I hurt my finger. I played basketball with my friends yesterday and I hurt it. A) Did you go to the hospital? B) No, I didn’t. It wasn’t that bad. I just put some tape on it. It will be okay.

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A very common grammar mistake is using didn’t instead of haven’t or vice versa. This can be particularly tricky when you’re learning English as a second language !

Didn’t and haven’t are both examples of contractions , and they both describe an action that hasn’t taken place. But even though they mean similar things, these two words aren’t interchangeable.

So, when should you use didn’t , and when should you use haven’t ?

Didn’t is the contracted form of did not. Did not is in the past tense and refers to an action that hasn’t been done and can’t be done anymore. Here are some examples:

I didn’t take the garbage out last night.

I didn’t finish my homework.

Lucy didn’t come to class today .

Haven’t is the contracted form of have not. Use haven’t when you’re talking about the past up until either the present or a specific time period. It should also be while the action can still be completed. Here are some examples:

They haven’t ridden any of the horses.

I haven’t watered the plants yet.

I wanted to start playing Animal Crossing this week but still haven’t .

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Here are some examples of how you can use didn’t and haven’t in the same sentence:

I didn’t see Carly at the festival, and I haven’t seen her since the Christmas party.

Rachel didn’t get the groceries, so I haven’t got anything to eat for lunch.

The lights went out, so I didn’t see anything, and they still haven’t come back on

Still confused? Here’s a good trick. If someone asks you a question, you can use the words in the question to figure out whether you should use didn’t or haven’t in your answer. Here are two examples:

Did you go to the park? No, I didn’t .

Have you seen Carly this week? No, I haven’t .

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1. What she _________ (do) last night? She _________ (do) her homework. 2. My brother_________ (not/use) the computer yesterday. 3. She _________ (live) in Hanoi. 4. Helen _________ (read) the newspaper last night. 5. He _________ (forget) something? 6. I _________ (go) to the supermarket after school. 7. You _________ (see) Annes cat yesterday? 8. She was very sad, so she _________ (leave) the office early. 9. Jack _________ (get) married last month? 10. Last week I _________ (visit) Temple of Literature in Ha Noi. 11. Hasley _________ (eat) pumpkin soup for dinner. 12. My sister _________ (go) to the zoo yesterday. 13. Kate _________ (have) a great time in Paris last summer. 14. What she _________ (eat) for dinner yesterday? 15. I _________ (buy) many souvenirs for my parents. 16. My brother _________ (write) my mother several letters. 17. Helen _________ (help) me with my homework last week. 18. I _________ (return) to Seoul yesterday. 19. She _________ (go) to the club with a stranger yesterday. 20. She _________ (prepare) dinner with her mother yesterday

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1. What did she do last night? She did her homework.

last night: quá khứ -> do -> did

2. My brother did not use the computer yesterday.

not-> phủ định mà yesterday : quá khứ -> did not

3. She lives in Hanoi.

She số ít -> live thêm s

4. Helen read the newspaper last night.

5. He forgets something.

He số ít -> V thêm s

6. I go to the supermarket after school .

7. You see Anne's cat yesterday?

8. She was very sad, so she leave the office early.

9. Jack get married last month?

10. Last week I visited the Temple of Literature in Ha Noi.

Last week: QK -> V2/ed

11. Hasley eats pumpkin soup for dinner.

Hasley số ít -> V s/es

12. My sister went to the zoo yesterday.

yesterday: tuần trước -> V2/ed

13. Kate had a great time in Paris last summer.

last summer: QK -> V2/ed

14. What did she eat for dinner yesterday?

15. I buy many souvenirs for my parents.

16. My brother writes my mother several letters.

My brother số ít -> V s/es

17. Helen helped me with my homework last week.

18. I returned to Seoul yesterday.

19. She went to the club with a stranger yesterday.

20. She prepare dinner with her mother yesterday

18/19/20 : yesterday : QK -> V2/ed

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`1,` did....do `-` did

`-` Dùng QKĐ vì có "last night" là DHNB

`2,` didn't use 

`-` Dùng QKĐ vì có "yesterday" là DHNB

`-` $\text{S + V(s/es)}$

`5,` Does......forget

`-` $\text{Do/Does + S + V}$

`7,` Did.....see

`8,`  left

`-` Vế trước dùng QKĐ thì vế sau cũng dùng QKĐ

`9,` Did.....get

`-` Dùng QKĐ vì có "last month" là DHNB

`10,` visited

`-` Dùng QKĐ vì có "Last week" là DHNB

`-` Dùng QKĐ vì có "last summer" là DHNB

`14,` did......eat

`16,` writes

`17,` helped

`-` Dùng QKĐ vì có "last week" là DHNB

`18,`  returned

`20,` prepared

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$\text{*Past Simple}$

`@` Với ĐT tobe:

`(+)` $\text{S + was/were + O.....}$

`(-)` $\text{S + was/were + not + O.....}$

`(?)` $\text{Was/Were + (not) + S + O......}$

`@` Với ĐT thường:

`(+)` $\text{S + Vpp}$

`(-)` $\text{S + didn't + V}$

`(?)` $\text{Did + (not) + S + V}$

`-` DHNB: yesterday, last (week, month, year, ....), ago, ...

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1. What did she do last night? She did her homework. last night: quá khứ: wh-words+ did+ S+V? S+ Ved/cột 2

2. My brother did not use the computer yesterday. yesterday : quá khứ đơn: S+ did not+ V

3. She lives in Hanoi. htđ: S+ V(s/es)

4. Helen read the newspaper last night. last night=> qkđ: S+ Ved/cột 2

5. He forgets something. htđ: S+ V(s/es) He số ít -> V thêm s

6. I go to the supermarket after school. htđ: S+ V(s/es)

7. Did You see Anne's cat yesterday? yesterday=> quá khứ: did+ S+V?

8. She was very sad, so she left the office early. qkđ: S+ Ved/cột 2

9. did Jack get married last month? last month=> quá khứ: did+ S+V?

10. Last week I visited the Temple of Literature in Ha Noi. Last week: QK -> V2/ed

11. Hasley eats pumpkin soup for dinner. htđ: S+ V(s/es)

12. My sister went to the zoo yesterday. yesterday: S+ Ved/cột 2

13. Kate had a great time in Paris last summer. last summer: S+ Ved/cột 2

14. What did she eat for dinner yesterday? yesterday=> quá khứ: wh-words+ did+ S+V?

15. I buy many souvenirs for my parents. htđ: S+ V(s/es)

16. My brother writes my mother several letters. htđ: S+ V(s/es) My brother số ít -> V s/es

17. Helen helped me with my homework last week. Last week: S+ Ved/cột 2

18. I returned to Seoul yesterday. yesterday=>S+ Ved/cột 2

19. She went to the club with a stranger yesterday. yesterday=>S+ Ved/cột 2

20. She prepared dinner with her mother yesterday yesterday=>S+ Ved/cột 2

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Caitlin Clark just made her WNBA debut. Here's how she and her team did.

May 15, 2024 / 4:56 AM EDT / CBS/AP

Uncasville, Conn. — Caitlin Clark struggled early in her WNBA debut before finishing with 20 points and 10 turnovers as the Indiana Fever fell to the Connecticut Sun 92-71 Tuesday night.

Alyssa Thomas led the Sun with 13 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds, registering the 12th triple-double of her career. DeWanna Bonner added 20 points and DiJonai Carrington had 16. Carrington also was a major reason for Clark's early offensive struggles, hounding the guard.

"Disappointed and nobody likes to lose, that's how it is," Clark said. "Can't beat yourself up too much about one game."

The NCAA's all-time Division I scoring leader , who finished the game 5 for 15 from the field, went scoreless in the first quarter. She missed her first four shots before finally getting on the board midway through the second period.

Clark stole the ball around the foul line and drove the length of the court before laying the ball in. She later added two free throws and hit a 3-pointer with 29.9 seconds left in the first half to finish the opening 20 minutes with seven points, hitting two of her seven shot attempts. The Fever trailed 49-39 at the break.

The Fever got within 63-57 late in the third quarter on two free throws by Clark, but couldn't get closer the rest of the way.

Clark did start heating up from the field, hitting four 3-pointers, including one from long range.

"Caitlin was able to get her some looks, able to knock them down. our spacing was not great," Indiana coach Christie Sides said. "Connecticut came in and punched us in the mouth tonight. We'll be in the gym tomorrow watching a lot of video trying to figure out how not to turn the ball over 25 times."

Clark broke the WNBA all-time record for turnovers in a debut game that was held by Cynthia Cooper-Dyke. Clark had 10.

CBSSports.com's Erica Ayala says Clark had "an unorthodox double double -- 20 points and 10 turnovers."

Ayala continued: "It was physical," said Clark after the game, learning quickly that the calls she might have been used to getting -- or perhaps even getting away with -– at Iowa were not going to fly in the WNBA. "Just expecting physicality was the biggest thing. Like there's no calls you're gonna get. The [defense] is going to get those calls, it is what it is."   

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How did Caitlin Clark do in WNBA debut? Indiana Fever vs Connecticut Sun highlights

It was Caitlin Clark’s WNBA debut , but really, the night belonged to Alyssa Thomas.

The 11th-year veteran for Connecticut reminded everyone why she was in MVP contention last season as she recorded her 12th career triple-double, scoring 13, grabbing 10 rebounds and handing out 13 assists, as the Connecticut Sun cruised to a 92-71 win over the Indiana Fever .

Clark finished with 20 points but it took the rookie some time to get going, and she shot just 5-of-15 from the field. The top pick in the 2024 draft also threw the ball away 10 times, a stat that’s sure to nag at her — and definitely not the type of double-double she wanted to record.

Connecticut’s DeWanna Bonner tied Clark for the game’s high scorer, with 20, while DiJonai Carrington and Ty Harris scored 16 each for the Sun. Connecticut forced the Fever into 25 turnovers, which the Sun turned into 29 points.

The Fever, which had the top pick in the WNBA Draft the last two years (they selected Aliyah Boston in 2023) missed the playoffs last season and have won just 43 games the last five seasons. The hope is that Clark will lift them into the postseason, but Tuesday night was a reminder that this team has a long way to go.

Clark makes her home debut Thursday vs. the New York Liberty.

How Connecticut Sun stifled Caitlin Clark

DiJonai Carrington knew early on that she’d draw the assignment of guarding Caitlin Clark, the top pick of the 2024 WNBA Draft.

And while she did a tremendous job — Clark scored a game-high-tying 20 points, but it took her a long time to get going and she scored a lot when the game was out of hand — her teammates didn’t want her thinking too highly of herself.

“To take on that job, we’re proud of her,” Sun star Alyssa Thomas said after Connecticut’s win. Then she turned to Carrington with a warning. “But don’t get too big-headed.”

It was a fun, lighthearted moment in a celebratory press conference. Carrington, one of the most improved and best sixth players in the league last year, moved into a starting role this season for Connecticut. She was great at both ends Tuesday night, scoring 16 points, grabbing five rebounds and snagging two steals in the Sun’s win.

One of those steals came just before halftime, when she picked Clark’s pocket and raced to the other end for a score.

It was nothing Connecticut coach Stephanie White hasn’t seen before.

“She does a lot of things in practice that show us she’s an elite defender,” White said. “But I tell her, you’ve gotta be an elite decision-making defender, and tonight she was … that’s part of growing into a starting role, and that’s gonna continue to be her challenge but she’s ready for a challenge.

“She knew (tonight) was an opportunity for her, and she’s taken ownership of it.”

Caitlin Clark highlights

Final: connecticut sun 92, indiana fever 71.

Sun star Alyssa Thomas recorded a triple-double (13-10-13) to help Connecticut cruise past Indiana 92-71 in Caitlin Clark's WNBA debut.

Caitlin Clark stats

Clark scored 20 points, tied for the game high, on 5-for-15 shooting (4-for-11 from 3). She had 10 turnovers, though, while recording just three assists. She had two steals and committed four fouls.

Sun's Alyssa Thomas records triple-double in season opener

A new WNBA season, another Alyssa Thomas triple-double.

In her first game of the 2024 season, Thomas recorded the impressive stat line with 3:30 to play, when she grabbed her 10th rebound of the night. She also has 13 points and 13 assists, and the Sun have an 81-67 lead.

It is Thomas’ 12th career triple-double, including playoffs. (All other WNBA players have combined for 21 total in the regular season.) In 2023, Thomas set a new league record for both double-doubles (28) and single-season assists (316). The 32-year-old is a four-time WNBA All-Star.

Caitlin Clark heating up

Caitlin Clark is starting to feel it.

After struggling for much of the game, turning over the ball a game-high eight times and shooting inefficiently, Clark found a rhythm as the Indiana Fever attempted to chip away at the Connecticut Sun's fourth-quarter lead.

Clark hit back-to-back 3-pointers midway through the fourth quarter and got to the line for a pair of free throws on another possession. Inefficient or not, she was tied with the Sun's DeWanna Bonner with a game-high 20 points as the Fever trailed 81-67 with 3:29 left.

End of third quarter: DeWanna Bonner moves up WNBA's all-time scoring list

It’s been a great day for DeWanna Bonner, who midway through the third quarter moved up to fifth on the WNBA’s all-time scoring list with 6,897 points. Bonner has 16 so far tonight, and her team has a 65-57 lead on Indiana at the end of the third quarter.

Bonner, 36, is in her 14th WNBA season, and her fifth with Connecticut (she previously played for Phoenix, helping the Mercury to two WNBA championships). Based on her production — last season she averaged 14.9 points and 6.1 rebounds — you’d never guess her age.  

Meanwhile, it’s been a rough night for Caitlin Clark, who has 12 points but also eight turnovers. Yikes. (She had nine, but one got taken away on the official stats.) She’s 3-of-10 from the field, struggling against Connecticut’s length defensively; it can’t be fun to be defended by Bonner, who has switched on to Clark a couple times. The Fever have 18 turnovers total, which Connecticut has turned into 18 points.

Final: New York Liberty 85, Washington Mystics 80

It feels fitting that in the most highly anticipated WNBA season in more than 20 years, the first game of 2024 went down to the wire.

The Washington Mystics had three chances to take the lead in the final 39 seconds after blowing an eight-point lead, but the New York Liberty made every look tough and Sabrina Ionescu hit all four free throw attempts at the end, holding on for an 85-80 win.

New York’s Jonquel Jones led all scorers with 25, Betnijah Laney-Hamilton chipped in 20 and Ionescu flirted with a triple-double with 15 points, seven rebounds and eight assists. Four Mystics players scored in double figures, led by Ariel Atkins (20). Brittney Sykes had a great all-around game for Washington with 14 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.

New York next travels to Indiana to play the Fever in Caitlin Clark’s home debut on Thursday.

Caitlin Clark struggling in WNBA debut

The struggles for Caitlin Clark continue.

Clark (10 points) picked up her game-high seventh turnover of the game midway through the third quarter of the Indiana Fever's opening game against the Connecticut Sun. She was also tied for a game-high with three fouls. 

The Sun led, 59-47, with 4:32 left in the third quarter. Clark committed an eighth turnover with 3:32 to go in the quarter with the Fever down 62-51.

Halftime: Caitlin Clark held to seven points in first half of WNBA action

If this was supposed to be a matchup of Caitlin Clark vs. whoever guarded her, DiJonai Carrington is winning.

Right now, by a lot.

Carrington, in her fourth year after playing college ball at both Stanford and Baylor, has 14 points in the first half, including a bucket after she picked Clark’s pocket with just under two minutes to play in the second quarter. Behind Carrington’s play, Connecticut has a 49-39 lead over Indiana at halftime.

Clark had just four points, on a layup and two free throws, until 30 seconds to play, when she connected on a 3 on Indiana’s baseline out-of-bounds play. It was her first score on Carrington directly, who got caught in a screen.

Part of Indiana’s problem the first half was that the Fever throw the ball away too much — 13 times, to be exact (Clark had five of them, with just one assist). Connecticut has turned those into 16 points.

Ty Harris has 11 points and DeWanna Bonner has 10 for the Sun. NaLyssa Smith is the only Fever player in double figures, with 11 points.

Caitlin Clark hits first 3-pointer

Clark finally hit from long range off a designed play in the final minute of the first half.

Caitlin Clark gets first points in WNBA

It took a quarter and a half, but Caitlin Clark got her first WNBA points with a baseline layup in the second quarter of the Indiana Fever's opening game against the Connecticut Sun.

Clark started the game 0-for-4 from the field and 0-for-2 from beyond the arc before making her first bucket. Clark spent much of the first quarter on the bench in foul trouble.

The host Sun led the Fever, 34-25, with 4:50 left in the first half.

Sun 19, Fever 13: Caitlin Clark still looking for first points after first quarter

We’ve been informed by our man on the ground that no, Mohegan Sun Arena is not selling Caitlin Clark jerseys.

But there’s no question why this game is a sellout.

Thousands have shown up to watch the No. 1 pick in the 2024 draft, and voiced their displeasure when Clark was whistled for her second foul early in the first quarter. At the time of that call, Clark was 0-for-3 from the field, with one assist and one turnover.

She was sent to the bench for most of the back half of the first, which helped Connecticut take a 19-13 lead at the end of the first period. Ty Harris has been an early bright spot for the Sun, scoring nine points, all on 3s.

Meanwhile NaLyssa Smith, who looked great in both of the Fever’s preseason games, has continued her tear, scoring seven quick points, grabbing three rebounds and blocking a shot.

Caitlin Clark checks back in

Caitlin Clark checked back in to her first WNBA regular-season game after racking up two early fouls against the Connecticut Sun.

Clark also missed her first three shots of the game before taking a seat on the bench.

After assisting on the first play of the game to give the Indiana Fever an early lead, Clark opted into a shoot-first mentality on Indiana's next few possessions and came up empty-handed.

Clark's second foul was loudly booed by the sellout crowd at Mohegan Sun Arena. Many fans in attendance arrived in Clark gear, be it of the Iowa or Indiana variety.

WNBA season kickoff: Mystics lead Liberty at half

Just a reminder that Caitlin Clark isn’t the only show in town tonight.

At halftime, the Washington Mystics lead the New York Liberty 43-40 after a 3 from Shakira Austin with 5.6 seconds to play before the break.

The halftime score might turn some heads considering the Liberty were one of the so-called “super teams” that came together during free agency in 2023, and played for the WNBA championship last year.

The first game of the 2024 season — New York-Washington tipped off about 30 minutes before Indiana-Connecticut — has been the Jonquel Jones show, as the 2021 WNBA MVP already has 14 points and four rebounds. Sabrina Ionescu, meanwhile, already has five assists (and only one turnover). Not bad for a guard known more for hitting 3s like Steph Curry.

Meanwhile, Stefanie Dolson has scored 11 points for Washington, and Ariel Atkins has already grabbed three steals.

One thing to remember: Because the WNBA season is so short compared to the NBA, and some of the league’s stars will miss games due to the Olympics, every single game matters when we talk league standings and playoff seeding.

Caitlin Clark gets into early foul trouble in season opener

This was not the start that Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark had hoped for.

The No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA draft picked up two early fouls midway through the first quarter. And she was still looking for her first points. After five minutes of play, Clark was 0-for-3 from the field and missed her only 3-point shot attempt, though she did dish an assist early in the contest.

The Connecticut Sun lead 10-7 at the first TV timeout.

Indiana Fever vs. Connecticut Sun tips off at Mohegan Sun Arena

FEVER STARTING LINEUP

• PG Erica Wheeler
• SG Caitlin Clark
• SF Katie Lou Samuelson
• PF NaLyssa Smith
• C Aliyah Boston

SUN STARTING LINEUP

• PG Tyasha Harris
• SG DiJonai Carrington
• SF DeWanna Bonner
• PF Alyssa Thomas
• C Brionna Jones

Caitlin Clark builds on ’99 soccer team’s moment in lifting women’s sports 

A year and a half ago, a vast majority of Americans had no idea who she was, an athletic young woman tucked away in a Midwestern university town, known to women’s college basketball fans but otherwise hidden from the gaze of the national media.  

Now  Caitlin Clark  is the most popular athlete in the nation, the driving force behind the greatest days in the history of women’s sports, America’s girl next door all grown up and the personification of everything the country was hoping Title IX might give us.  

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2024 WNBA rookies to watch 

 The 2024 WNBA rookie class is one of the most anticipated in history, led by none other than  Caitlin Clark , the scoring phenom from Iowa who re-wrote the college record books.  

But she’s not the only newcomer expected to make a big impact, and do so immediately. There hasn’t been this sort of attention and excitement around  WNBA rookies  since 2013, when  Brittney Griner , Elena Della Donne and Skylar Diggins-Smith joined the league.  

To get you ready for the  2024 WNBA season that tips Tuesday , USA TODAY Sports' Lindsay Schnell gives a primer on the nine rookies she thinks will have the biggest impact this season. 

Read more from Lindsay Schnell here.  

How to watch Indiana Fever vs. Connecticut Sun 

The Fever at Sun will be televised on ESPN2 with Ryan Ruocco (play-by-play), Rebecca Lobo (analyst), and Holly Rowe (sideline) on the call. 

How to stream Indiana Fever vs. Connecticut Sun 

Streaming options for Fever at Sun include the ESPN app, ESPN+ , Disney+ and  Fubo . 

The game will also be available on demand on the  WNBA’s League Pass  upon its conclusion. Fans can get League Pass by downloading the WNBA app. 

SIGN UP FOR FUBO: Access to WNBA games during the season  

When is Caitlin Clark's first home game with the Fever? 

The Fever’s home opener is Thursday against the New York Liberty.

What to know about 2024 WNBA season 

Arguably one of the  most highly-anticipated WNBA seasons  in the league's history has arrived. 

The 2024  WNBA  season is set to tip off, and it is shaping up to be one of the most exciting times in professional women's basketball. The  game and interest in the league has exploded to new heights , and the  incoming draft class  has  generated more buzz . 

College stars such as  Caitlin Clark ,  Angel Reese ,  Cameron Brink  and more will be making their debuts at the professional level, but there is already plenty of stars they'll go up against, including New York Liberty forward and 2023 Most Valuable Player  Breanna Stewart , Liberty guard  Sabrina Ionescu  and Las Vegas Aces forward  A'ja Wilson . Can the rookies lead their teams to immediate success? Or will star-studded teams continue to shine? 

Read more from Lorenzo Reyes and Jordan Mendoza here.  

2024 WNBA GM survey predictions 

The WNBA on Tuesday released results from its survey of team general managers, who made predictions for the season. 

• Here are some of their picks:   MVP: A’ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces. Wilson, who guided Las Vegas to back-to-back championships in 2022 and 2023, received 67 percent of the MVP votes. The Connecticut Sun’s Alyssa Thomas, the 2023 MVP runner-up, was next with 25 percent, and reigning MVP Breanna Stewart of the New York Liberty was third with eight percent.
• Best defender: Wilson, a two-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year, received 42 percent of the votes to finish ahead of Thomas, who was second with 25 percent.
• Rookie of the Year: The Fever’s Caitlin Clark, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA draft, received 92 percent of the votes. The Los Angeles Sparks’ Cameron Brink, the No. 2 overall pick, got the remaining eight percent.
• Most likely to have breakout season: Aliyah Boston of the Indiana Fever. Boston won WNBA Rookie of the Year honors last season.

10 bold predictions for WNBA season 

The 28th WNBA season tips off tonight, so it’s time to start thinking about what’s in store for women’s professional basketball the next few months.   

There’s  never been more excitement  around the women’s game. With a  star-studded draft class , a team going for its third consecutive championship and a Summer Olympics that will help drum up interest in women’s basketball, the WNBA is headed into its  most-anticipated season  since the league debuted almost three decades ago.   

So what can we expect this summer? For starters, Caitlin Clark will lead the WNBA in assists and make the Olympic team. Read Lindsay Schnell’s bold predictions here .  

WNBA’s newest team now has a name 

The WNBA's newest team, which will join the league from the Bay Area in 2025, now has a name. 

The league announced that the new team will be named the  Golden State Valkyries  and displayed a new logo and colors on its new website. The team's colors are known as Valkyrie Violet. 

The announcement coincides with the start of the WNBA's 28th season, which tips off tonight at 7 p.m. ET when the New York Liberty take on the Washington Mystics, one of four games on the schedule. 

The team said that a Valkyrie originates "from Norse mythology and that the nickname represents" a host of warrior women who are fearless and unwavering – flying through air and sea alike." Read more from Scooby Axson here.  

Las Vegas Aces star lands Nike shoe deal 

Las Vegas Aces  star  A'ja Wilson  is the latest athlete to get her own signature shoe, announcing the news Saturday as the two-time defending champions were preparing to play a preseason exhibition against the Puerto Rican national team. 

Wilson joins  New York Liberty  guard  Sabrina Ionescu  as WNBA players to have a Nike signature shoe in recent years. Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark reportedly  signed a deal worth $28 million  that would also include her own signature shoe with Nike. 

Read more from Scooby Axson here.  

What time is Indiana Fever vs. Connecticut Sun?  

The Fever-Sun tip off at 7:30 p.m. ET at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. 

How did Caitlin Clark play in WNBA preseason 

In what was maybe the most-anticipated preseason game in the 28-year history of the WNBA, Clark and the Fever played in Dallas against the Wings on May 3.  Indiana dropped the game, 79-76 , but Clark played well in her first-ever WNBA action. 

She started the game and played 28 minutes, and finished 6-of-15 from the floor – including 5-of-13 from 3-point range – to score 21 points. She also added three rebounds, two assists and two steals, but committed five turnovers. She made all but one of her five free throw attempts. 

As she did throughout her college career at Iowa, Clark flashed her ability to elude defenders in the perimeter with her dribbling and showed off her deep range. 

In Indiana's second preseason game,  Clark and the Fever beat the Atlanta Dream , 83-80. Clark played 32 minutes and went 4-of-12 from the field, including two-of-nine from 3-point range, to finish with 12 points. Similar to her first game, Clark committed a game-high six turnovers, but she added eight rebounds and six assists. 

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'Reality is coming': Diana Taurasi was right about Caitlin Clark

Diana Taurasi was right about Caitlin Clark .

“Reality is coming,” Taurasi said last month on SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt. “There’s levels to this thing.”

DT was saying that while Clark was a star in college, she’s just a rookie in the WNBA. And in Clark’s first game as a pro Tuesday night, she and her Indiana Fever teammates were burned by the Connecticut Sun, 92-71.

Clark picked up two early fouls and was held scoreless for most of the first half. She finished with 20 points, leading Indiana, but it came on just 5-for-15 shooting.

She also struggled in the fourth quarter as the Sun outscored the Fever 27-14 to close the game.

When Clark entered with about 7 minutes to play in the final period, the Fever trailed by 13; they ended up losing by 21. Clark had eight points and an assist, but that was offset by two turnovers, two fouls and three missed shots as Connecticut pulled away.

Taurasi was right, and it was nothing personal. Just a fair warning from a veteran superstar who’s seen it all over the last 20 years.

"Reality is coming. There’s levels to this thing. And that’s just life,” the White Mamba said. “We all went through it. You see it on the NBA side, and you’re going to see it on this side. … You look superhuman playing 18-year-olds, but you’re going to come with some grown women that’ve been playing professional basketball for a long time.

“Not saying that it’s not gonna translate because when you’re great at what you do, you’re just gonna get better. But there is gonna be a transition period where you’re just gonna have to give yourself some grace as a rookie.”

All eyes now shift to DT, the WNBA’s all-time leading scorer, the GOAT that Clark will be chasing for as long as she can remain a top-level superstar.

The Mercury opened the season Tuesday night with a loss at Las Vegas. Taurasi scored 23 points to lead Phoenix. Their next game is the home opener Saturday against the Atlanta Dream.

DT and Clark will have a chance to match up for the first time on June 30 when the Fever visit Footprint Center.

Reach Moore at  [email protected]  or 602-444-2236. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter,  @SayingMoore .

Leistikow: How Kate Martin coyly told her parents she made the Las Vegas Aces WNBA roster

Of the two major Iowa women’s basketball news items that occurred Monday, Lisa Bluder announcing her retirement after back-to-back national title-game appearances actually would have seemed more plausible 15 months ago than Kate Martin making an opening-night WNBA roster .

That’s because 15 months ago, Martin wasn’t even sure she wanted to return to college for her sixth-year senior season.

“It’s hard work being the glue,” her father, Matt Martin, recalled Monday night, referencing his daughter’s affectionate nickname among her adoring fans. (And, boy, are they are adoring.) “Even though she loved her experience at Iowa, it’s still hard work – being the captain, the glue and attending to everybody’s needs and wants. So, I understood when she questioned whether she wanted to return or not.

“But obviously she did, and there’s been a huge domino effect since. It’s just unbelievable.”

Since Martin returned to Iowa, the world of Matt and Jill Martin, Kate’s parents, has also been turned upside down in many ways. They can’t believe they’ve found themselves in meaningful conversation with “Ted Lasso” (actor Jason Sudeikis). They have been to another Final Four, another national championship game. They also have come to grips with the fact that their daughter has become a celebrity – not exactly like Caitlin Clark, but not that far off.

“We will admit that there is a celebrity to Kate now,” Matt said. “We fought it. We laughed at it. We thought it was silly. But … she definitely has a following now that is undeniable. That’s just crazy to us.”

So when Kate called home several days ago on FaceTime, her mother actually wasn’t that surprised when the big news was delivered.

More: Leistikow: What led Lisa Bluder to retirement, what she'll miss the most and one regret

But ever the comedian, Kate didn't let her roster news slip until a casual reference deep into the conversation.

“I was kind of mad at her, actually,” Jill said, laughing. “We had talked for like 15 minutes like normal. Then she’s like, ‘Hey, by the way, nobody’s supposed to know this. But I made the roster.’”

Considering Kate Martin averaged 7.7 points per game for Iowa in the 2022-23 season, that decision to return to Iowa – or begin what she hopes becomes a basketball coaching career – was difficult. Martin and teammate Gabbie Marshall announced on Feb. 20, 2023, that they would come back to play for the Hawkeyes in Clark’s senior season.

Martin’s production jumped to 13.1 points per game, but even so, she wasn’t expected to be chosen in the WNBA Draft on April 15. And even after she was surprisingly selected No. 18 by the Las Vegas Aces, second- or third-round picks rarely make a 12-player roster with only 12 teams in the league. Even first-round picks sometimes get cut.

“She said (before) her first practice with the Aces, ‘I’m just going to go out there and enjoy it,’” Jill Martin said. “… I think it paid off.”

The Aces are the two-time defending WNBA champions for a reason. They smartly recognized how Martin, a 6-foot guard, can contribute with versatility on the court and leadership off of it.

"Kate Martin is awesome. Kate Martin picks up things so quickly," Las Vegas star Kelsey Plum recently said. “She an amazing sponge.”

Matt Martin has been thankful in what Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon saw in his daughter.

“I don’t think they were looking for a Caitlin Clark,” he said. “They were looking for role players that were going to make them better and players that understood their roles. I think Kate, at least right now, is the right fit for their program.”

In her only preseason game, Martin played 10 minutes. She took one shot, a 3-pointer, and made it. She made both free throws for a total of five points. She had two assists. Typical Kate. By the way, former Hawkeye Megan Gustafson had 17 points in that 102-50 win over the Puerto Rico national team.

The reason Martin coyly let slip that she made the Aces roster – a news item that didn’t become official until Monday, when Bluder’s retirement and Jan Jensen’s promotion to Iowa head coach overshadowed it – was because of something Plum suggested. Plum said that Martin would want her family at the first game, and the Martins – who live in Moline, Illinois – needed a little heads up if they were going to travel two time zones in time for Tuesday’s 9 p.m. CT home opener vs. the Phoenix Mercury.

Martin’s mom, older sister (Kennedy) and 8-month-old nephew (Carson) were set to fly out to Las Vegas on Tuesday morning.

There, they'll witness the latest unexpected development for Kate Martin – her official WNBA debut.

Her wild year continues.

Hawkeyes columnist Chad Leistikow has served for 29 years with The Des Moines Register and USA TODAY Sports Network. Chad is the 2023 INA Iowa Sports Columnist of the Year and NSMA Co-Sportswriter of the Year in Iowa. Join Chad's text-message group (free for subscribers) at  HawkCentral.com/HawkeyesTexts .  Follow @ChadLeistikow on Twitter .

All of Blake Lively's Met Gala looks, ranked from least to most iconic

• Blake Lively has attended 10 Met Galas throughout her career. 
• Over the years, her outfits have just gotten better and more daring. 
• Most recently, Lively wore a dress inspired by NYC landmarks that changed colors.

The 2024 Met Gala has finally arrived.

On Monday night, celebrities will gather at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual charitable fundraiser, which benefits the museum's Costume Institute.

A-list stars will show off their interpretations of the " The Garden of Time " dress code for the "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" Met Gala with their red carpet attire.

It's always exciting to see attendees' different takes on the dress code, and Blake Lively is often a fan favorite thanks to her dramatic red carpet looks.

Check out all 10 of Lively's Met Gala looks from over the years, ranked from least to most iconic.

At the 2010 Met Gala, Lively wore a blue Marchesa minidress that was playful but a bit unmemorable.

The theme for the night was "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity."

Lively stood out among other celebrities wearing floor-length gowns in this short look, which she paired with glittery black shoes and Lorraine Schwartz jewelry. Although the outfit was pretty, it wasn't as eye-catching as other Met Gala looks the actor has worn. 

She attended her first gala in 2008 wearing a strapless black Ralph Lauren dress that was just too simple for the grand event.

Lively made her debut at the "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" ball in a classic mermaid-style dress designed with feathers on the skirt. She coordinated the dress with black gloves and diamond bracelets. 

Lively opted for an edgier look for the "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" Met Gala in 2013.

Lively arrived at the gala in a strapless gray-and-black Gucci gown. The dress had tiers of silk fabric and metallic beading across the hips. She completed her look with statement diamond earrings. 

Lively started to embrace daring fashion at the 2009 event in a Versace dress with a thigh-high slit.

Lively paired her outfit with simple gold heels at the "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion" gala. Her choice of understated accessories made it so all the attention was on the sheer sleeve, thigh-high slit, and plunging neckline design of the dress. 

Lively looked elegant at the 2011 Met Gala in a Grecian-inspired dress.

The same year that Lively became the face of Chanel, she attended the "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty"-themed event in a gown from the brand's Fall 2009 Haute Couture collection.

Half of Lively's "naked" dress was embellished with silver flowers, and the other half was a long draped fabric panel. 

In 2014, Lively wore a form-fitting, blush Gucci Première gown that exuded Old Hollywood glamour and cemented her place as a style icon to watch at the gala.

The actor arrived at the "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" exhibit in a floor-length gown covered in sequins. At the event, Lively told People that her outfit was an example of how much she loves dramatic trains. 

"I love a train, but then when I get on these stairs, I'm like, 'Why am I wearing a train?'" she said.

The red jewelry Lively wore coordinated with the pink color of the dress.

Lively's Burberry dress in 2016 didn't fit the "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" theme, but she still made a statement in this princess look.

Lively looked ethereal in the pink-and-red dress. It had a thigh-high slit that was covered by a sheer fabric, so you could still see her leg peeking through. 

She was pregnant with her second child when she walked the red carpet but hadn't made the news public yet.

Lively's gold Atelier Versace gown at the 2017 Met Gala is one of her best, but it didn't make headlines like the dress she wore a year later.

The train of Lively dress at the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between"-themed event was designed with four different shades of blue feathers. She completed her look with sapphire and gold jewelry. 

At the 2018 gala, Lively made a fashion statement in an Atelier Versace dress with sheer thigh-high slits on both legs.

Lively's Versace gown for the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination"-themed event took more than 600 hours to make.

The ornate ruby-and-gold gown was designed with a jewel-encrusted corset. She then accessorized the dramatic look with a spiked headpiece, Christian Louboutin shoes, and Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.

Lively outdid her 2018 outfit when she channeled the Statue of Liberty at the 2022 gala in a gown that unraveled to create two stunning looks, going from copper to green.

The actor, who was a co-chair for the 2022 event alongside husband Ryan Reynolds, arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a custom Versace look that changed from bronze to green to mirror the oxidation of the famous New York City landmark. The tulle dress was embroidered with crystal and metallic leather and tri-tone copper foil. 

When Lively arrived, the dress had an oversized copper bow at the hip leading into a long, dramatic train. The bow unraveled as she walked along the red carpet to reveal the green color. 

Lively told E! on the red carpet that the front of the dress was designed to emulate the architecture of the Empire State Building. She also said her Lorraine Schwartz crown was another accessory meant to mimic the Statue of Liberty. 

E!'s Zanna Roberts Rassi said the green side of the train was embroidered with a celestial map inspired by the same 12 zodiac constellations that are painted on the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal in New York City. 

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Stormy Daniels Takes the Stand

The porn star testified for eight hours at donald trump’s hush-money trial. this is how it went..

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It’s 6:41 AM. I’m feeling a little stressed because I’m running late. It’s the fourth week of Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial. It’s a white collar trial. Most of the witnesses we’ve heard from have been, I think, typical white collar witnesses in terms of their professions.

We’ve got a former publisher, a lawyer, accountants. The witness today, a little less typical, Stormy Daniels, porn star in a New York criminal courtroom in front of a jury more accustomed to the types of witnesses they’ve already seen. There’s a lot that could go wrong.

From “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.”

Today, what happened when Stormy Daniels took the stand for eight hours in the first criminal trial of Donald J. Trump. As before, my colleague Jonah Bromwich was inside the courtroom.

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It’s Friday, May 10th.

So it’s now day 14 of this trial. And I think it’s worth having you briefly, and in broad strokes, catch listeners up on the biggest developments that have occurred since you were last on, which was the day that opening arguments were made by both the defense and the prosecution. So just give us that brief recap.

Sure. It’s all been the prosecution’s case so far. And prosecutors have a saying, which is that the evidence is coming in great. And I think for this prosecution, which is trying to show that Trump falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal, to ease his way into the White House in 2016, the evidence has been coming in pretty well. It’s come in well through David Pecker, former publisher of The National Enquirer, who testified that he entered into a secret plot with Trump and Michael Cohen, his fixer at the time, to suppress negative stories about Trump, the candidate.

It came in pretty well through Keith Davidson, who was a lawyer to Stormy Daniels in 2016 and negotiated the hush money payment. And we’ve seen all these little bits and pieces of evidence that tell the story that prosecutors want to tell. And the case makes sense so far. We can’t tell what the jury is thinking, as we always say.

But we can tell that there’s a narrative that’s coherent and that matches up with the prosecution’s opening statement. Then we come to Tuesday. And that day really marks the first time that the prosecution’s strategy seems a little bit risky because that’s the day that Stormy Daniels gets called to the witness stand.

OK, well, just explain why the prosecution putting Stormy Daniels on the stand would be so risky. And I guess it makes sense to answer that in the context of why the prosecution is calling her as a witness at all.

Well, you can see why it makes sense to have her. The hush money payment was to her. The cover-up of the hush money payment, in some ways, concerns her. And so she’s this character who’s very much at the center of this story. But according to prosecutors, she’s not at the center of the crime. The prosecution is telling a story, and they hope a compelling one. And arguably, that story starts with Stormy Daniels. It starts in 2006, when Stormy Daniels says that she and Trump had sex, which is something that Trump has always denied.

So if prosecutors were to not call Stormy Daniels to the stand, you would have this big hole in the case. It would be like, effect, effect, effect. But where is the cause? Where is the person who set off this chain reaction? But Stormy Daniels is a porn star. She’s there to testify about sex. Sex and pornography are things that the jurors were not asked about during jury selection. And those are subjects that bring up all kinds of different complex reactions in people.

And so, when the prosecutors bring Stormy Daniels to the courtroom, it’s very difficult to know how the jurors will take it, particularly given that she’s about to describe a sexual episode that she says she had with the former president. Will the jurors think that makes sense, as they sit here and try to decide a falsifying business records case, or will they ask themselves, why are we hearing this?

So the reason why this is the first time that the prosecution’s strategy is, for journalists like you, a little bit confusing, is because it’s the first time that the prosecution seems to be taking a genuine risk in what they’re putting before these jurors. Everything else has been kind of cut and dry and a little bit more mechanical. This is just a wild card.

This is like live ammunition, to some extent. Everything else is settled and controlled. And they know what’s going to happen. With Stormy Daniels, that’s not the case.

OK, so walk us through the testimony. When the prosecution brings her to the stand, what actually happens?

It starts, as every witness does, with what’s called direct examination, which is a fancy word for saying prosecutors question Stormy Daniels. And they have her tell her story. First, they have her tell the jury about her education and where she grew up and her professional experience. And because of Stormy Daniels’s biography, that quickly goes into stripping, and then goes into making adult films.

And I thought the prosecutor who questioned her, Susan Hoffinger, had this nice touch in talking about that, because not only did she ask Daniels about acting in adult films. But she asked her about writing and directing them, too, emphasizing the more professional aspects of that work and giving a little more credit to the witness, as if to say, well, you may think this or you may think that. But this is a person with dignity who took what she did seriously. Got it.

What’s your first impression of Daniels as a witness?

It’s very clear that she’s nervous. She’s speaking fast. She’s laughing to herself and making small jokes. But the tension in the room is so serious from the beginning, from the moment she enters, that those jokes aren’t landing. So it just feels, like, really heavy and still and almost oppressive in there. So Daniels talking quickly, seeming nervous, giving more answers than are being asked of her by the prosecution, even before we get to the sexual encounter that she’s about to describe, all of that presents a really discomfiting impression, I would say.

And how does this move towards the encounter that Daniels ultimately has?

It starts at a golf tournament in 2006, in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Daniels meets Trump there. There are other celebrities there, too. They chatted very briefly. And then she received a dinner invitation from him. She thought it over, she says. And she goes to have dinner with Trump, not at a restaurant, by the way. But she’s invited to join him in the hotel suite.

So she gets to the hotel suite. And his bodyguard is there. And the hotel door is cracked open. And the bodyguard greets her and says she looks nice, this and that. And she goes in. And there’s Donald Trump, just as expected. But what’s not expected, she says, is that he’s not wearing what you would wear to a dinner with a stranger, but instead, she says, silk or satin pajamas. She asked him to change, she says. And he obliges.

He goes, and he puts on a dress shirt and dress pants. And they sit down at the hotel suite’s dining room table. And they have a kind of bizarre dinner. Trump is asking her very personal questions about pornography and safe sex. And she testifies that she teased him about vain and pompous he is. And then at some point, she goes to the bathroom. And she sees that he has got his toiletries in there, his Old Spice, his gold tweezers.

Very specific details.

Yeah, we’re getting a ton of detail in this scene. And the reason we’re getting those is because prosecutors are trying to elicit those details to establish that this is a credible person, that this thing did happen, despite what Donald Trump and his lawyers say. And the reason you can know it happened, prosecutors seem to be saying, is because, look at all these details she can still summon up.

She comes out of the bathroom. And she says that Donald Trump is on the hotel bed. And what stands out to me there is what she describes as a very intense physical reaction. She says that she blacked out. And she quickly clarifies, she doesn’t mean from drugs or alcohol. She means that, she says, that the intensity of this experience was such that, suddenly, she can’t remember every detail. The prosecution asks a question that cuts directly to the sex. Essentially, did you start having sex with him? And Daniels says that she did. And she continues to provide more details than even, I think, the prosecution wanted.

And I think we don’t want to go chapter and verse through this claimed sexual encounter. But I wonder what details stand out and which details feel important, given the prosecution’s strategy here.

All the details stand out because it’s a story about having had sex with a former president. And the more salacious and more private the details feel, the more you’re going to remember them. So we’ll remember that Stormy Daniels said what position they had sex in. We’ll remember that she said he didn’t use a condom. Whether that’s important to the prosecution’s case, now, that’s a much harder question to answer, as we’ve been saying.

But what I can tell you is, as she’s describing having had sex with Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is sitting right there, and Eric Trump, his son, is sitting behind him, seeming to turn a different color as he hears this embarrassment of his father being described to a courtroom full of reporters at this trial, it’s hard to even describe the energy in that room. It was like nothing I had ever experienced. And it was just Daniels’s testimony and, seemingly, the former President’s emotions. And you almost felt like you were trapped in there with both of them as this description was happening.

Well, I think it’s important to try to understand why the prosecution is getting these details, these salacious, carnal, pick your word, graphic details about sex with Donald Trump. What is the value, if other details are clearly making the point that she’s recollecting something?

Well, I think, at this point, we can only speculate. But one thing we can say is, this was uncomfortable. This felt bad. And remember, prosecutor’s story is not about the sex. It’s about trying to hide the sex. So if you’re trying to show a jury why it might be worthwhile to hide a story, it might be worth —

Providing lots of salacious details that a person would want to hide.

— exposing them to how bad that story feels and reminding them that if they had been voters and they had heard that story, and, in fact, they asked Daniels this very question, if you hadn’t accepted hush money, if you hadn’t signed that NDA, is this the story you would have told? And she said, yes. And so where I think they’re going with this, but we can’t really be sure yet, is that they’re going to tell the jurors, hey, that story, you can see why he wanted to cover that up, can’t you?

You mentioned the hush money payments. What testimony does Daniels offer about that? And how does it advance the prosecution’s case of business fraud related to the hush money payments?

So little evidence that it’s almost laughable. She says that she received the hush money. But we actually already heard another witness, her lawyer at the time, Keith Davidson, testify that he had received the hush money payment on her behalf. And she testified about feeling as if she had to sell this story because the election was fast approaching, almost as if her leverage was slipping away because she knew this would be bad for Trump.

That feels important. But just help me understand why it’s important.

Well, what the prosecution has been arguing is that Trump covered up this hush money payment in order to conceal a different crime. And that crime, they say, was to promote his election to the presidency by illegal means.

Right, we’ve talked about this in the past.

So when Daniels ties her side of the payment into the election, it just reminds the jurors maybe, oh, right, this is what they’re arguing.

So how does the prosecution end this very dramatic, and from everything you’re saying, very tense questioning of Stormy Daniels about this encounter?

Well, before they can even end, the defense lawyers go and they consult among themselves. And then, with the jury out of the room, one of them stands up. And he says that the defense is moving for a mistrial.

On what terms?

He says that the testimony offered by Daniels that morning is so prejudicial, so damning to Trump in the eyes of the jury, that the trial can no longer be fair. Like, how could these jurors have heard these details and still be fair when they render their verdict? And he says a memorable expression. He says, you can’t un-ring that bell, meaning they heard it. They can’t un-hear it. It’s over. Throw out this trial. It should be done.

Wow. And what is the response from the judge?

So the judge, Juan Merchan, he hears them out. And he really hears them out. But at the end of their arguments, he says, I do think she went a little too far. He says that. He said, there were things that were better left unsaid.

By Stormy Daniels?

By Stormy Daniels. And he acknowledges that she is a difficult witness. But, he says, the remedy for that is not a mistrial, is not stopping the whole thing right now. The remedy for that is cross-examination. If the defense feels that there are issues with her story, issues with her credibility, they can ask her whatever they want. They can try to win the jury back over. If they think this jury has been poisoned by this witness, well, this is their time to provide the antidote. The antidote is cross-examination. And soon enough, cross-examination starts. And it is exactly as intense and combative as we expected.

We’ll be right back.

So, Jonah, how would you characterize the defense’s overall strategy in this intense cross-examination of Stormy Daniels?

People know the word impeach from presidential impeachments. But it has a meaning in law, too. You impeach a witness, and, specifically, their credibility. And that’s what the defense is going for here. They are going to try to make Stormy Daniels look like a liar, a fraud, an extortionist, a money-grubbing opportunist who wanted to take advantage of Trump and sought to do so by any means necessary.

And what did that impeachment strategy look like in the courtroom?

The defense lawyer who questions Stormy Daniels is a woman named Susan Necheles. She’s defended Trump before. And she’s a bit of a cross-examination specialist. We even saw her during jury selection bring up these past details to confront jurors who had said nasty things about Trump on social media with. And she wants to do the same thing with Daniels. She wants to bring up old interviews and old tweets and things that Daniels has said in the past that don’t match what Daniels is saying from the stand.

What’s a specific example? And do they land?

Some of them land. And some of them don’t. One specific example is that Necheles confronts Daniels with this old tweet, where Daniels says that she’s going to dance down the street if Trump goes to jail. And what she’s trying to show there is that Daniels is out for revenge, that she hates Trump, and that she wants to see him go to jail. And that’s why she’s testifying against him.

And Daniels is very interesting during the cross-examination. It’s almost as if she’s a different person. She kind of squares her shoulders. And she sits up a little straighter. And she leans forward. Daniels is ready to fight. But it doesn’t quite land. The tweet actually says, I’ll dance down the street when he’s selected to go to jail.

And Daniels goes off on this digression about how she knows that people don’t get selected to go to jail. That’s not how it works. But she can’t really unseat this argument, that she’s a political enemy of Donald Trump. So that one kind of sticks, I would say. But there are other moves that Necheles tries to pull that don’t stick.

So unlike the prosecution, which typically used words like adult, adult film, Necheles seems to be taking every chance she can get to say porn, or pornography, or porn star, to make it sound base or dirty. And so when she starts to ask Daniels about actually being in pornography, writing, acting, and directing sex films, she tries to land a punch line, Necheles does. She says, so you have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex appear to be real, right?

As if to say, perhaps this story you have told about entering Trump’s suite in Lake Tahoe and having sex with him was made up.

Just another one of your fictional stories about sex. But Daniels comes back and says, the sex in the films, it’s very much real, just like what happened to me in that room. And so, when you have this kind of combat of a lawyer cross-examining very aggressively and the witness fighting back, you can feel the energy in the room shift as one lands a blow or the other does. But here, Daniels lands one back. And the other issue that I think Susan Necheles runs into is, she tries to draw out disparities from interviews that Daniels gave, particularly to N-TOUCH, very early on once the story was out.

It’s kind of like a tabloid magazine?

But some of the disparities don’t seem to be landing quite like Necheles would want. So she tries to do this complicated thing about where the bodyguard was in the room when Daniels walked into the room, as described in an interview in a magazine. But in that magazine interview, as it turns out, Daniels mentioned that Trump was wearing pajamas. And so, if I’m a juror, I don’t care where the bodyguard is. I’m thinking about, oh, yeah, I remember that Stormy Daniels said now in 2024 that Trump was wearing pajamas.

I’m curious if, as somebody in the room, you felt that the defense was effective in undermining Stormy Daniels’s credibility? Because what I took from the earlier part of our conversation was that Stormy Daniels is in this courtroom on behalf of the prosecution to tell a story that’s uncomfortable and has the kind of details that Donald Trump would be motivated to try to hide. And therefore, this defense strategy is to say, those details about what Trump might want to hide, you can’t trust them. So does this back and forth effectively hurt Stormy Daniels’s credibility, in your estimation?

I don’t think that Stormy Daniels came off as perfectly credible about everything she testified about. There are incidents that were unclear or confusing. There were things she talked about that I found hard to believe, when she, for instance, denied that she had attacked Trump in a tweet or talked about her motivations. But about what prosecutors need, that central story, the story of having had sex with him, we can’t know whether it happened.

But there weren’t that many disparities in these accounts over the years. In terms of things that would make me doubt the story that Daniels was telling, details that don’t add up, those weren’t present. And you don’t have to take my word for that, nor should you. But the judge is in the room. And he says something very, very similar.

What does he say? And why does he say it?

Well, he does it when the defense, again, at the end of the day on Thursday, calls for a mistrial.

With a similar argument as before?

Not only with a similar argument as before, but, like, almost the exact same argument. And I would say that I was astonished to see them do this. But I wasn’t because I’ve covered other trials where Trump is the client. And in those trials, the lawyers, again and again, called for a mistrial.

And what does Judge Marchan say in response to this second effort to seek a mistrial?

Let me say, to this one, he seems a little less patient. He says that after the first mistrial ruling, two days before, he went into his chambers. And he read every decision he had made about the case. He took this moment to reflect on the first decision. And he found that he had, in his own estimation, which is all he has, been fair and not allowed evidence that was prejudicial to Trump into this trial. It could continue. And so he said that again. And then he really almost turned on the defense. And he said that the things that the defense was objecting to were things that the defense had made happen.

He says that in their opening statement, the defense could have taken issue with many elements of the case, about whether there were falsified business records, about any of the other things that prosecutors are saying happened. But instead, he says, they focused their energy on denying that Trump ever had sex with Daniels.

And so that was essentially an invitation to the prosecution to call Stormy Daniels as a witness and have her say from the stand, yes, I had this sexual encounter. The upshot of it is that the judge not only takes the defense to task. But he also just says that he finds Stormy Daniels’s narrative credible. He doesn’t see it as having changed so much from year to year.

Interesting. So in thinking back to our original question here, Jonah, about the idea that putting Stormy Daniels on the stand was risky, I wonder if, by the end of this entire journey, you’re reevaluating that idea because it doesn’t sound like it ended up being super risky. It sounded like it ended up working reasonably well for the prosecution.

Well, let me just assert that it doesn’t really matter what I think. The jury is going to decide this. There’s 12 people. And we can’t know what they’re thinking. But my impression was that, while she was being questioned by the prosecution for the prosecution’s case, Stormy Daniels was a real liability. She was a difficult witness for them.

And the judge said as much. But when the defense cross-examined her, Stormy Daniels became a better witness, in part because their struggles to discredit her may have actually ended up making her story look more credible and stronger. And the reason that matters is because, remember, we said that prosecutors are trying to fill this hole in their case. Well, now, they have. The jury has met Stormy Daniels. They’ve heard her account. They’ve made of it what they will. And now, the sequence of events that prosecutors are trying to line up as they seek prison time for the former President really makes a lot of sense.

It starts with what Stormy Daniels says with sex in a hotel suite in 2006. It picks up years later, as Donald Trump is trying to win an election and, prosecutors say, suppressing negative stories, including Stormy Daniels’s very negative story. And the story that prosecutors are telling ends with Donald Trump orchestrating the falsification of business records to keep that story concealed.

Well, Jonah, thank you very much. We appreciate it.

Of course, thanks for having me.

The prosecution’s next major witness will be Michael Cohen, the former Trump fixer who arranged for the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. Cohen is expected to take the stand on Monday.

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Meanwhile, high level ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas have been put on hold in part because of anger over Israel’s incursion into Rafah.

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Today’s episode was produced by Olivia Natt and Michael Simon Johnson. It was edited by Lexie Diao, with help from Paige Cowett, contains original music by Will Reid and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Alyssa Moxley. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly.

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This episode contains descriptions of an alleged sexual liaison.

What happened when Stormy Daniels took the stand for eight hours in the first criminal trial of former President Donald J. Trump?

Jonah Bromwich, one of the lead reporters covering the trial for The Times, was in the room.

On today’s episode

Jonah E. Bromwich , who covers criminal justice in New York for The New York Times.

Background reading

In a second day of cross-examination, Stormy Daniels resisted the implication she had tried to shake down Donald J. Trump by selling her story of a sexual liaison.

Here are six takeaways from Ms. Daniels’s earlier testimony.

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