04:SIMPLE PAST TENSE

FORM

[VERB+ed or irregular verbs]

Examples: You called Debbie. or She bought an eraser. 

Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes, the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind.

Examples:

• I saw a movie yesterday.
• Last year, I traveled to Japan.
• she bought the dress last month.
• Dila washed her car last week.

We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed actions in the past. These actions happen 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and so on.

Examples:

• I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim.
• He arrived from the airport at 8:00, checked into the hotel at 9:00, and met the others at 10:00

The Simple Past can be used with a duration which starts and stops in the past. A duration is a longer action often indicated by expressions such as: for two years, for five minutes, all day, all year, etc.

Examples:

• 
• I lived in Brazil for two years.
• Shauna studied Japanese for five years.
• They did not stay at the party the entire time.
• We talked on the phone for thirty minutes.

The Simple Past can also be used to describe past facts or generalizations which are no longer true. This use of the Simple Past is quite similar to the expression used to.

• She was shy as a child, but now she is very outgoing.
• He didn't like tomatoes before.
• People paid much more to make cell phone calls in the past.

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