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Learn how to use the past simple to talk about the past, and do the exercises to practise using it.
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Easy explanations and examples about how to make the past simple (or simple past) tense in English with lots of exercises and quizzes.
The simple past (also called past simple, past indefinite or preterite) is a verb tense which is used to show that a completed action took place at a specific time in the past. The simple past is also frequently used to talk about past habits and generalizations.
The past simple is the most common way of talking about past events or states which have finished. It is often used with past time references (e.g. yesterday, two years ago). Please explain past events or states! A past event could be one thing that happened in the past, or a repeated thing.
The Past Simple is used to write and talk about completed actions that happened in a time before the present. It is the basic form of the past tense in English. Study the following information how to form the simple past and how to form the negation and questions.
The simple past expresses an action in the past taking place once, never, several times. It can also be used for actions taking place one after another or in the middle of another action.
We can use several tenses and forms to talk about the past, but the Past Simple tense is the one we use most often. In this lesson we look at the structure and use of the Past Simple tense, followed by a quiz to check your understanding.
