Two friends compare their weekends on a Monday morning

It is Monday, the start of the working week, and two friends who work together meet before the day begins. One of them is visibly short of energy after a celebration that finished very late; the other had a much calmer two days. They ask each other about their free time.

1. A: Hiya! You look really tired.
2. B: Yeah, I am. We went to Sarah's party on Saturday and didn't get home till two.
3. A: Two? That's late. Was it good?
4. B: Really good. She cooked for about twenty people. What about you?
5. A: Nothing special. I stayed in on Saturday and watched a film.
6. B: Which one?
7. A: The new space one - I forgot the name. Oh, and on Sunday I took my brother to the football.
8. B: Did they win?
9. A: No, they lost two-nil. He cried all the way home, poor kid.
10. B: Oh no. Well, at least you saw a match. I just slept all Sunday.

Every finished action in this exchange is in the past simple, and the two ways English forms it sit side by side. Several verbs take the regular written ending - you hear them in lines 4 and 5, and in the second verb of line 9. Others change their whole shape instead, as in lines 2, 7 and 10 - and the first verb of line 9 belongs to this group too. Notice also what happens when an auxiliary appears: in the question in line 8 and the negative in line 2, the auxiliary carries the past tense, so the main verb stays in its base form.

1. On Saturday, B ___ to a friend's party and didn't get home until two.