SIMPLE PAST The simple past tense, sometimes called the preterite, is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now . The simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important. We use the past tense to talk about: something that happened once in the past : I met my wife in 1983. We went to Spain for our holidays. They got home very late last night. something that happened again and again in the past : When I was a boy I walked a mile to school every day. We swam a lot while we were on holiday. They always enjoyed visiting their friends. something that was true for some time in the past: I lived abroad for ten years. He enjoyed being a student. She played a lot of tennis when she was younger. we oft...
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