Simple Past Tense

Simple Past Tense

• The Simple Past Tense is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now.
• The Simple Past Tense 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.
• The Simple Past is used to indicate an action completed in the past. It often occurs with adverbs or adverb phrases of past time.

Example: I received his letter a week ago.