Simple Past

The simple past tense is a verb form used to refer to an action or series of actions that were completed in the past.

The simple past tense, sometimes called the preterite, is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. The simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important.

It has two clasification which are regular and irregular verbs