simple past

noun

Etymology

“Simple” because the tense is formed without any auxiliary verb.

Definitions

  1. A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of…

    A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for simple past. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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