Simple Past Tense, Past Continuous Tense, Past Perfect Tense, and Past Perfect Continuous Tense Simple Past Tense The simple past tense is used to indicate or describe something that happened or existed in the past. The situations or conditions to use a simple past tense is to: describe an action, event or condition that occurred in the past or at a specified time refer or describe an action that has been completed and there is no time mentioned. describe an action or occurrence of an event that is done repeatedly and regularly. describe a state of mind in the past or a feeling that was felt in the past. refer to someone who has died describe events that have occurred in quick succession in the past. Formulating the Simple Past Tense Verb To formulate the simple past tense verb, we add ‘- ed’. For verbs ending in ‘e’, we add ‘-d’ and. However, there are some simple past tense verbs such as cut, put, set etc which remain the same in th...
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