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Noun Concept
Categories: Grammatical tenses
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simple past  past simple  past indefinite  Past simple tense  Simple past tense
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The ​form of a ​verb used to ​describe an ​action that ​happened before the ​present ​time and is no ​longer ​happening. Open English WordNet
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The ​form of a ​verb used to ​describe an ​action that ​happened before the ​present ​time and is no ​longer ​happening. Open English WordNet
The simple past, past simple, or past indefinite, sometimes called the preterite, is the basic form of the past tense in Modern English. Wikipedia
A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have. Wiktionary
The simple past tense. Wiktionary (translation)
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However there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms. Open English WordNet
Regular verbs form the simple past in -ed Open English WordNet
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past
tense
simple tense
Open English WordNet
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past simple, simple past
Wikipedia
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simple past
Wikidata
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simple past
Wiktionary
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simple past
Wikipedia Redirections
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past indefinite, past simple, Past simple tense, Simple Past, Simple past (English), Simple past tense
Wikidata Alias
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past indefinite, past simple

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