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Simple past refers to the simple past tense of a verb.

It is used to talk about actions that happened in the past.

The past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding -ed to the end of a verb. For example: finished is the past tense of finish.

For irregular verbs, there is no pattern to forming the past tense. You must simply learn the list of past tense verbs. For example: sang is the past tense of sing.

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