SIMPLEPAST

Simple past

The simple past or past simple, sometimes called the preterite, is the basic form of the past tense in Modern English. It is used principally to describe events in the past, although it also has some other uses. Regular English verbs form the simple past in -ed; however there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms.

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simple past

Noun

  1. A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by inflection of a single word (i.e., without any auxiliary verb such as be or have).


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