We use the simple past tense to talk about things in the past.
In short, the simple past is used to express an action that started and ended in the past.
Eg. I will be eating rice tomorrow. – I ate rice last week. (Future continuous-simple past)
Regular verbs are significantly more marked in simple past than irregular verbs.
The English stative passive voice sentences can be the simple present, the simple past, the present perfect or the part perfect.
Library Trip: Students went to the library and find at least 10 simple present tense verbs and 10 simple past verbs by reading storybooks.
In this lesson, learners will be able to understand and use verbs in present and simple past tenses, ask and answer questions about what happened in the past.
And will learn The simple past tense, The present perfect tense, The past perfect tense as well as The future tense.
I can find out the sentence structures of the positive, negative statements and questions forms of the simple past tense.
At first glance it looks as if there is no element of "present involvement" in this use of the present perfect any more than in the simple past.
This paper studies the effects of verb salience on the simple past marking in Chinese-English interlanguage, based on 120 written narratives collected from 120 college students of four universities.
Yet and already are both used when talking about the possible completion of an action by or before a particular are mostly used with the perfect tenses(in US usage also with the simple past).
