The
past indefinite tense or past simple, sometimes called the preterit, is the basic form of the past tense in present English.
It is used principally to describe events in the past, even though it also has
some other uses.
The
term ‘simple‘ is used to distinguish the syntactical construction whose basic
form uses the plain past tense alone, from other past tense constructions which
use auxiliaries in combination with participles, such as the past perfect and
past progressive.
*The
simple past tense is used to denote an action completed in the past. It often
occurs with adverbs or adverb phrases of past time.
The
steamer sailed yesterday.
I
received
his letter a week ago.
She
left
school last year.
*Sometimes
this tense is used without an adverb of time. In such cases the time may be
either implied or indicated by the context.
I
learnt
Hindi in Nagpur.
I
didn’t
sleep well.
Babar
defeated
Rana Sanga at Kanwaha.
*The
Simple Past is also used for past habits; as,
He
studied
many hours every day.
She
always carried an Umbrella.
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