The simple past, past simple, or past indefinite, in English equivalent to the preterite, is the basic form of the past tense in Modern English. It is...

For specific uses of past tense constructions, see the sections below on simple past, past progressive, past perfect, and past perfect progressive. In...

these cases the simple past tense is used instead: "He was hungry"; "We knew what to do next." Habitual (repeated) action in the past can be marked by...

the past participle, j'avais mangé. Another type of pluperfect (passé antérieur, "past anterior") can be formed with the appropriate simple past form...

greatest variety is shown in verb forms referring to past events. A series of past constructions (past simple, imperfect, and pluperfect) is matched by a corresponding...

The Simple Past (Le passé simple) is a French novel by the Moroccan writer Driss Chraïbi . It was first published by the Gallimard in 1954. The novel received...

The Simple Past or Le passé simple is a 1977 French drama film directed by Michel Drach. Cécile has just had a terrible car accident. Her husband François...

or were completed in the past; in some languages, such as Spanish, French, and English, it is equivalent to the simple past tense. In general, it combines...

The simple present, present simple or present indefinite is one of the verb forms associated with the present tense in modern English. It is commonly referred...

(in the simple present singular), -é or -ai (in the past participle and the je form of the simple past), and -a- (in the rest of simple past singular...

Simple Plan is a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec. Formed in 1999, the band's current lineup consists of Pierre Bouvier (lead vocals, studio bass...

sensual perceptions existing in the past. The past progressive (past continuous) is formed using the simple past of be (was or were) with present participle...

Simple majority may refer to: Majority, a voting requirement of more than half of all votes cast Plurality (voting), a voting requirement of more votes...

of whether they have a majority or not. The method is often called first-past-the-post (FPTP/FPP), based on a metaphor from horse racing. In social choice...

similar uses of the past participle in place of the past simple, such as seen replacing saw as past simple form of see. I only done what you done told me....

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977, becoming best known internationally for their song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" (1985)...

The passé simple (French pronunciation: [pase sɛ̃pl], simple past, preterite, or past historic), also called the passé défini (IPA: [pase defini], definite...

is that of declarative clause with a lexical verb in a present simple or past simple form. Like Yes/No questions, interrogative Wh- questions are regularly...

In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership. A "fee" is a vested, inheritable, present possessory...

circumstance placed in the past, contingent on some other circumstance (again normally counterfactual, and also usually placed in the past). Like the present...

one over there'), and relative pronouns are formed from these. Verbs have simple forms, usually ending in '-a' (everything before the 'a' being the 'stem'...

A Simple Favor is a 2018 American black crime comedy film directed by Paul Feig. Its screenplay by Jessica Sharzer is based on the 2017 novel of the same...

seven tenses: present, imperfect, future, aorist (the equivalent of past simple), perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect. (The last two, especially...

(present, past, past iterative and future) which are all formed using the verb būti in its respective tense and person as well as the active past simple participle...

relevant Wiktionary entry. This is followed by the simple past tense (preterite), and then the past participle. If there are irregular present tense forms...

imperfect in Greek, the preterite and imperfect in Spanish, the simple past (passé simple) and imperfect in French, and the perfect and imperfect in Latin...

x, z, ch, or th, they were created so that Atlantean might be used as a simple cipher code in the media and for promotional purposes. They are all also...

originally in present perfect tense (with marker -me-) to sentences in past simple tense (-li); I also changed the subject of the last four sentences from...

a general past tense, at least for completed actions. In English, completed actions in many contexts are referred to using the simple past verb form rather...

"(he who) received". This tense is sometimes referred to as the "Past" or "Simple Past". However, the descriptions given by several authors make it clear...