Simple Past and Present Perfect Tense
Howdy fellas!! It's so nice to see you again in this post 😄 I want to share some information about 2 tenses: Simple Past and Present Perfect. The simple past, past simple or past indefinite, sometimes called the preterite, is the basic form of the past tense in Modern English. It is used principally to describe events in the past, although it also has some other uses. Regular English verbs form the simple past in -ed; however, there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms. 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 is used for a single event (or sequence of such events) in the past, and also for past habitual action: He took the money and ran. I visited them every day for a year. It can also refer to a past state: I k...
