Skip to main content
Grammaring

Search form

  • Topics
  • Tags
  • Glossary
  • Highest rated
  • Verb phrase generator
  • Test your grammar
  • Exercises
  • E-book
Home »Topics »Time, tense and aspect »Past time »Past simple

Past simple

past
simple
tense
  • Form: past simple
  • Past simple for completed actions in the past
  • Past simple for past habits and states
  • Past simple for actions happening over a period of time in the past
  • Past simple to express a point in the past
  • The auxiliary DID for emphasis
◂ Guiding questions: past time ▴
Past time Form: past simple ▸

Rate this page

up
503 users like this page.

E-book

For timeline diagrams, quotes and exercises, check out our e-book The Grammaring Guide to English Grammar

About | Copyright

Grammaring – A guide to English grammar | Copyright © 2009-2025