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simple past

gaaneval19391 — 2021-09-24 17:22:45 UTC

The "simple past" is used to talk about an action that ended earlier than the current one. The duration is not relevant. The time in which the action is situated can be the recent past or the distant past.

gaaneval19391 — 2021-09-24 17:24:52 UTC

gaaneval19391 — 2021-09-24 17:25:54 UTC

How to Formulate the Simple Past

For regular verbs, add -ed to the root form of the verb (or just -d if the root form already ends in an e):

Play→Played Type→Typed Listen→Listened Push→Pushed Love→Loved

For irregular verbs, things get more complicated. The simple past tense of some irregular verbs looks exactly like the root form:

Put→Put Cut→Cut Set→Set Cost→Cost Hit→Hit

For other irregular verbs, including the verb to be, the simple past forms are more erratic:

See→Saw Build→Built Go→Went Do→Did Rise→Rose Am/Is/Are→Was/Were

simple past negative

gaaneval19391 — 2021-09-24 17:31:11 UTC

Negative sentences with the past simple are relatively easy as they do not require you to handle the past form of regular and irregular verbs in English.
examples:
I don't know English = I don't know English
I did not know English = I did not know English
I don't have money = I don't have money
I had no money = I had no money
I don't exercise = I don't exercise
I did not exercise = I did not exercise

past progressive

gaaneval19391 — 2021-09-24 17:33:25 UTC

Past Progressive is a form of the verb that shows that the action was in progress at a given time or period in the past. For example: Yesterday at 7 o'clock Judi was washing the dishes.

gaaneval19391 — 2021-09-24 17:34:13 UTC

simple past interrogative

gaaneval19391 — 2021-09-24 17:39:13 UTC

past progressive use

gaaneval19391 — 2021-09-24 17:41:44 UTC

It can also be used to describe something that was happening continuously in the past when another action interrupted it.

The past continuous can shed light on what was happening at a precise time in the past.
It can also refer to a habitual action in the past.

One final caution: Though the irregularities are few, not every verb is suited to describing a continuous action. Certain verbs can’t be used in the past continuous tense. One common example is the verb to arrive.

gaaneval19391 — 2021-09-24 17:46:45 UTC