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14 Simple Past Tense

Warm-up

Complete the table.

Present Past Present Past

1. began 16. know

2. shine 17. ride

3. rose 18. blew

4. run 19. cut

5. sat 20. swim

6. threw 21. dug

7. drink 22. forget

8. sink 23. come

9. become 24. taught

10. wrote 25. spent

11. freeze 26. hide

12. caught 27. rang

13. fly 28. wear

14. buy 29. thought

15. bent 30. find

The simple past tense expresses an action that was completed in the past at a
definite point of time.

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