Past Simple - (Simple Past Tense)
Simple Past tense is used to describe actions that happened at an earlier time and have already completed, for example:
She Cleaned her house. She cleaned his house.
Here is the conjugation in Spanish equivalent to the Past Indefinite. Notice that the sentence structure is similar to the Simple Present:
Both the negative interrogative form as is used as auxiliary DID is the past form of the verb "TO DO" and accompanies the main verb in its infinitive form. Negations can be used in the contracted form of DID NOT or DID. In the top box uses the verb To Play (Play) as an example.Expressing a sentence in Past Simple means that the action is unrelated to the present, as shown in the following cases:
I lost the keys. He lost the keys.
(Perhaps in this the've found).
She lent me a book. She lent me a book.
(You might already have returned it).
It is also possible to indicate the time when the action is to indicate the time more accurately:
They saw the movie last night. They saw the movie last night.
We went to London yesterday. We went to London yesterday.
In order to form a sentence in past tense we must distinguish two types: regular verbs and irregular verbs.
In the first case are the Simple Past ED adding the ending to the infinitive, while the irregulars are so called not to follow a particular pattern and in this case must be studied individually.
