What is the simple past

If you want to talk about completed actions, you have to use the simple past.

But there are a few things you need to know before you can use it.

Creating a sentence

  • 2. form of the verb

Examples:

I ate pizza.

You ate pizza.

She ate pizza.

We ate pizza.

They ate pizza.


Signal words

ago, last..., in 1864, on Tuesday, World War I 

(past annual figures/dates, events)

Examples:

I was born in 1959.

He died three years ago.