This document discusses the simple past tense in English. The simple past refers to actions that were completed in the past. For regular verbs, the simple past is formed by adding "-ed" to the base verb. However, there are also many irregular verbs with unique past tense forms. The auxiliary verb "be" has the past tense forms "was" and "were", while other verbs use "did" as an auxiliary verb to form questions, negatives, and emphatic statements in the past tense. Examples are provided to illustrate the different uses of the simple past, including for single past events, habitual past actions, and past states.

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Pasado Simple
(simple past)

2. The simple past.
It is one of these tenses , present in different languages. The
last mention refers to actions already performed previously
(ie , who were already completed ) . In Castilian , the
simple past also known as single or past perfect tense
undefined And is expressed with the past form of the verb
and nothing else.
• My grandfather WAS Italian.
• All his life he WAS a teacher.
Examples:

3. Formation
Regular verbs form the simple past in -ed; however there are a few
hundred irregular verbs with different forms. For details see English
verbs: Past tense.
Most verbs have a single form of the simple past, independent of
the person or number of the subject (there is no addition of -s for the
third person singular as in the simple present). However, the copula
verb be has two past tense forms: was for the first and third persons
singular, and were in other instances. The form were can also be used
in place of was in conditional clauses and the like; for information on
this, see English subjunctive. This is the only case in modern English
where a distinction in form is made between the indicative and
subjunctive moods in the past tense.

4. Questions, other clauses requiring inversion, negations with not, and
emphatic forms of the simple past use the auxiliary did. For details of this
mechanism, see do-support. A full list of forms is given below, using the
verb help as an example:
• Basic simple past:
I/you/he/she/it/we/they helped
• Expanded simple past:
I/you/he/she/it/we/they did help
• Question form:
Did I/you/he/she/it/we/they help?
• Negative:
I/you/he/she/it/we/they did not (didn't) help
• Negative question:
Did I/you/he/she/it/we/they not help?
/ Didn't I/you/he/she/it/we/they help?

5. Usage
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 knew how to fight even as a child.
For action that was ongoing at the time referred to, the past progressive is
generally used instead. The same can apply to states, if temporary, but some
stative verbs do not generally use the progressive aspect at all – see Uses of
English verb forms: Progressive – and in these cases the simple past is used even
for a temporary state:
• The dog was in its kennel.
• I felt cold.