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	Simple Past Usage - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The simple past is mostly a literary tense...
		For the word visited, the simple past and the past participle are the same...
		The Past Simple tense, also called the Simple Past, is used for past actions that happened either at...
	simple.greatestofthewww.com /index.php?k=simple-past-usage (569 words)

	Simple past (French) - Wikibooks
		For -er, -ir, and -re verbs, except as indicated below, the simple past stem is determined by removing the -er, -ir, or -re from the infinitive.
		The stem change that applies in the present indicative is retained when conjugating the je, tu, il, nous, and vous forms of the simple past.
		For irregular verbs whose past participle end in -u, (but not for regular -re verbs, whose past participle also end in -u), that past participle is also the simple past stem.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Simple_past_(French) (215 words)

	Education resources on the Internet - Home Page
		The simple past in English may look like a tense in your own language, but the meaning may be different.
		The negative of "have" in the simple past is usually formed using the auxiliary "do", but sometimes by simply adding not or the contraction "n't".
		For the negative and interrogative form of all verbs in the simple past, always use the auxiliary 'did''.
	www.edufind.com /english/grammar/Tenses9.cfm (230 words)

	Simple Past - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The passÃ© simple (simple past or preterite) is the literary equivalent of...
		The simple past tense is expressed with the past form of the verb and nothing else...
		The Past Simple tense, also called the Simple Past, is used for past actions that happened either at a specific time...
	simple.greatestofthewww.com /index.php?k=simple-past (1051 words)

	Using Verb Tenses
		The simple present is used to describe an action, an event, or condition that is occurring in the present, at the moment of speaking or writing.
		The simple past is used to describe an action, an event, or condition that occurred in the past, sometime before the moment of speaking or writing.
		The simple past ("realized") is used to describe the action closest to the present, an action that followed both the chopping and the mincing.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/usetense.html (2859 words)

	englishcam/Present Perfect & Past Tense
		The Simple Past Tense is used to describe an action when it happened at a specific time in the past.
		The negative in the Simple Past is formed using the words DID NOT (or the contraction didn't) between the Subject and the present tense of the Main Verb.
		To make a question in the Simple Past we use the past tense of the helping verb To Do, or DID with the subject followed by the main verb.
	www.conversa1.com /simplepasttense.htm (758 words)

	englishcam/The Past Progressive
		The past progressive is formed using the past of BE with the GERUND (---ING form).
		We use the past progressive to express an action that was happening at a specific moment in the past.
		Notice that the interrupted action is expressed using the past progressive, and the interrupting action is expressed by the past simple.
	conversa1.com /pastprogressive.htm (322 words)

	ENGLISH PAGE - Simple Past
		Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past.
		The Simple Past can be used with a duration which starts and stops in the past.
		The Simple Past can also be used to describe a habit which stopped in the past.
	www.englishpage.com /verbpage/simplepast.html (388 words)

	simple past tense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For things that happened in the past and are finished.
		Simple past tense can be difficult because there are about 170 irregulars (verbs that change form instead of taking '-ed').
		The irregular simple past tense forms must be memorized and practiced; however, they do occur in predictable patterns.
	www.epcc.edu /ftp/Homes/tracyvm/simpast.html (48 words)

	Present Perfect Tense: Simple Past vs Present Perfect vs Present Perfect
		If we are speaking about a situation after one of these time periods, we use the simple past because we are referring to a period of time that has finished.
		The present perfect simple is often used with for and since and stative verbs to talk about things that began in the past and have continued up to now.
		We normally use the simple past to talk about actions that took place at a time that is separated from the present.
	www.uazone.org /friends/esl4rus/presentperf.html (1168 words)

	Education resources on the Internet - Home Page
		The past continuous of any verb is composed of two parts : the past tense of the verb to be (was/were), and the base of the main verb +ing.
		The past continuous describes actions or events in a time before now, which began in the past and was still going on at the time of speaking.
		Note: with verbs not normally used in the continuous form, the simple past is used.
	www.edufind.com /english/grammar/Tenses10.cfm (202 words)

	English Grammar: Simple Past Tense - Use (EnglishClub.com)
		We use the simple past tense to talk about an action or a situation—an event—in the past.
		Notice that it does not matter how long ago the event is: it can be a few minutes or seconds in the past, or millions of years in the past.
		We may use the past continuous tense to "set the scene", but we almost always use the simple past tense for the action.
	www.englishclub.com /grammar/verb-tenses_past_u.htm (300 words)

	Simple Past (Past Simple)
		The simple past expresses an action in the past taking place once, never, several times.
		For irregular verbs, use the past form (see list of irregular verbs, 2nd column).
		Simple Past: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3
	www.ego4u.com /en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past (214 words)

	THe Habitual Past
		Tagliamonte (Tagliamonte and Lawrence, 2000), explains that the habitual past (henceforth HP) can be expressed by the preterit, used to and would, each of which can be employed to describe "a situation which existed for a period of time but is no longer the case".
		This verb form is frequently spoken of as being quite near to the meaning of used to and is generally defined as embodying the notion of "personal habits or characteristic behaviour"(Quirk et al !985:228).
		That is "although past states and passed habits may be encoded with either simple form (preterit) or the used to construction, they refer to quite different situations." In effect, the former is employed to describe states and the latter to express "habitual events".
	www.yorksj.ac.uk /dialect/habitual.htm (1103 words)

	The Verb System: An Overview of Verb Tenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The simple present is used with verbs which aren't usually used in the progressive (-ing) forms to indicate a situation that exists right now, at the moment of speaking.
		The simple past indicates that an activity or situation began and ended at a particular time in the past.
		The past perfect progressive emphasizes the continuing nature of an activity that was in progress before another activity or time in the past.
	rwc.hunter.cuny.edu /writing/on-line/overview.html (1574 words)

	JohnsEsl - An online community for teachers and students of ESL
		The simple past is used to talk about activities or situations that began and ended at a particular time in the past (e.g., yesterday, last night, twodays ago, in 1990), as in (a) and (b).
		The past progressive expresses an activity that was in progress (was occurring, was happening) at a point of time in the past (e.g., at 6.10) or at the time of another action (e.g., when Tom came.) In (c): Eating was in progress at 6:10; eating was in progress when Tom came.
		In g : When two actions are in progress at the same time, the past progressive can be used in both parts of the sentence.
	www.johnsesl.com /templates/grammar/simpastprogressive.php (186 words)

	330 Grammar: Forming the Simple Past Tense (Regular Verbs) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The simple past tense is one of the most common tenses in English.
		Its form is the same with all subjects.
		With most verbs, the simple past is created simply by adding -ED.
	web2.uvcs.uvic.ca /elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pasted.htm (137 words)

	biology - French language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The French language is a Romance dialect, meaning that it is descended from Latin.
		Although in the past many Frenchmen liked to refer to their descent from Gallic ancestors (nos ancêtres les Gaulois), perhaps fewer than 200 words with a Celtic etymology remain in French today (largely place and plant names and words dealing with rural life and the earth).
		By extension, it has also come to be used to distinguish homophones: du ("of the") vs. dû (past participle of devoir "to owe"; note that dû is in fact written thus because of a dropped e: deu).
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/French_language (3487 words)

	THE PAST PROGRESSIVE TENSE
		The past progressive is formed with the past of be + the -ing form.
		The Past Progressive and the Simple Past are often used together in a sentence.
		The Past Progressive describes a situation or action in progress in the past, and the Simple Past describes a shorter action or event.
	www.znanje.org /knjige/english/grammar/verbs/pastprogress.htm (329 words)

	Simple Past, Past Simple - English Grammar
		3) together with the Past Progressive/Continuous - The Simple Past interrupted an action which was in progress in the past.
		Always use the auxiliary did (Simple Past of to do) for negations.
		Use the auxiliary did (Simple Past of to do).
	www.englisch-hilfen.de /en/grammar/sim_past.htm (123 words)

	SImple past tense
		In English, we use the simple past tense for narration (i.e.
		The simple past is used less often and primarily for written and more formal communication.
		When we use any of the past tenses in German (simple past, present perfect, or past perfect), we distinguish between weak, irregular weak, and strong verbs.
	comp.uark.edu /~condray/2003_2013/simplepast.html (553 words)

	simple past theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A: to describe actions/events that happened in the recent or long past and are now finished.
		N.B. The Simple Past Tense is often used with certain phrases of time:
		The general rule for construction of the Simple Past Tense of regular verbs is:
	www.xtec.es /~dpermany/creditvirt/students/unit2/task2/simplepast.htm (282 words)

	330 Grammar: Negatives and Questions in the Simple Past Tense
		Negatives and Questions in the Simple Past Tense
		In the simple past tense, negative and question forms are made using the auxiliary verb "do" (in its past form, "did") followed by the simple form of the main verb.
		Negatives in the simple present are formed by adding didn't (informal) or did not (formal) before the simple form of the verb.
	web2.uvcs.uvic.ca /elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pastnq.htm (192 words)

	Tense Consistency: Exercise #1
		Although the main tense in the following paragraph is past, the writer correctly shifts to present tense twice.
		For the past seven years, I have called myself a swimmer.
		This ordinarily simple task is hindered by the frightened and uncooperative patient, Mathilda Olson.
	owl.english.purdue.edu /handouts/grammar/g_tensecEX1.html (943 words)

	The Simple Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Past Tense Negative Forms (A) Irregular Verb Forms
		Progressive and simple forms in the past tense / Repeated actions in the past
		Things People Do Simple Past with Irregular Verbs 1
	www.xtec.es /~jbalart2/angles/gram/past.htm (92 words)

	Simple Past Tense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Use the simple past tense to express action completed at a specific time in the past.
		To form the past tense, add the ending -ed to the base form of the verb.
		In the Los Angeles basin during December 1982, acid fog reached a level of acidity comparable to that of vinegar.
	mit.imoat.net /handbook/past.htm (64 words)

	Spanish Institute of Puebla - Spanish Guide
		Los Tebeos de Siempre: Spanish-language comic strips from past and present.
		Simple Past Tense in Spanish: A good explanation of the differences between the preterite and the imperfect.
		La Prensa: A simple but attractive newspaper from San Pedro Sula with news from all over Central America.
	www.sipuebla.com /spanish-guide.htm (2191 words)

	Simple Past Tense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Use the simple past tense to express action completedat a specific time in the past.
		To form the past tense, add the ending-ed to the base form of the verb.
		In the Los Angeles basin during December 1982, acid fogreached a level of acidity comparable to that ofvinegar.
	www.mhhe.com /mayfieldpub/tsw/past.htm (80 words)

	Verb Tense Chart
		Past Action that took place over a period of time
		With verbs of state that begin in the past and lead up to and include the present
		To express duration of an acton that began in the past, has continued into the present, and may continue into the future
	owl.english.purdue.edu /handouts/esl/esltensverb.html (297 words)

	Grammar Series
		This lesson explains the Present Perfect and Past tenses and helps you understand when to use them.
		Past Progressive Tense Ana was taking a shower when Ivan called.
		This lesson explains the Past Progressive tense and helps you understand how to use it.
	www.conversa1.com /grammarseries.htm (322 words)

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