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Definition of Simple Past Tense






                         Read the following sentence.

                         They went to cinema yesterday.








                          The simple past tense indicates an action that


                      took  place  in  the  past  and  is  over  now.  It  uses

                      Verb 2.






            The Ways of Forming the Simple Past Tense of the Verbs




              1. Regular Verb


                 Add -d to the verbs ending in -e.



                      Verb
                      Verb        Simple Past Tense              hate               hated


                        tie                tied                  use                used



                       die                 died                 move               moved



                  Add -ed to the most verbs. It called regular verb.



                      Verb        Simple Past Tense              stay              stayed



                      cook               cooked                  play              played



                      listen             listened                talk               talked










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