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Simple Past explained

Simple Past:

WHEN TO USE:
For the completed actions in the past.
Past means completed time period.
So, it is used for the actions that were completed in the completed time period.

HOW TO USE:
S+V2+O
(S- subject, V2-past verb form, O-object)
**Helping verb: DID
Negative form: did not (or) didn't.
Negative of V2 = didn't + V1
            Positive Negative
              Came = didn't come
              Went = didn't go
              Asked = did not ask
              Swam = did not swim
              Wrote = didn't write
               Put = didn't put
               Cut = did not cut

He visited my office yesterday. (+ve)
He did not visit my office yesterday.(-ve)
Did he visit my office yesterday? (+ve int)
Didn't he visit my office yesterday? (-ve int)

(+ve: positive sentence
-ve: negative sentence
int: interrogative sentence)

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