Simple Past TenseEnglish Grammar Index
The Simple Past Tense is used to express an action which took place in the past and is completed by the time of speaking.
General Form :
Subject + Was / Were / Past tense verb
I / He / She / It / All Singular subjects – was / past tense verb
We / You / They / All Plural subjects – were / Past tense verb
Rules :
Examples :
Our School celebrated its Silver jubilee last month.
We got Independence on 15th August 1947.
In olden days soldiers fought with swords.
People travelled in carts a hundred years ago.
Babar was the founder of Mughal empire.
Tagore wrote our national anthem.
The presence of the following Keywords in a sentence indicates the existence of This Tense in that sentence.
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in 1947
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in 1975
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In 1980
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in 1985
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In ancient times
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In early days
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In my boyhood days
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In my childhood
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In olden days
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In those day
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last month
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Last week
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last year
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long long ago
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Once
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Once upon a time
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One day
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Then
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two years ago
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Yesterday
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