The simple past tense 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.

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Definition

• John Cabot sailed to America in 1498.

• My father died last year.

• He lived in Fiji in 1976.

• We crossed the Channel yesterday.

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Examples :

​A regular verb is one that forms its simple past tense and its past participle by adding -ed or -d to the base form of the verb.

Regular Verb

​Some verbs are irregular. That means that the pronunciation and spelling in past are different. These verbs have to be memorized.

Irregular Verb