English Grammar--The Past Simple Tense

I have earlier on described tense as a change in the form of a word to show time.Morphologically speaking , English has only two tenses---Present Tense and Past Tense. All other configurations of the verb refer to what is called Aspect. That area of verb configurations, Adverb Phrases and their grammatical functions and many other grammatical points will be sent to you as e-manual right into your email box if you order for it.To place your other write to me using my personal email below.Meanwhile let me show you the simple past tense function.

The simple past tense is concerned with an action that took place at a given point in time in the past. In other words it is called past definite.For example , last year Okolo took his common entrance examination. In the sentence above, a definite action took place in the past and stopped there.o Okolo does not take the common entrance every year. Another example , 'The aeroplane flew from Kaduna to Lagos last week'. Here the past action is again definite.The plane does not fly every day. It 'flew' last week, a definite time expressed by a definite past tense form of the verb under discussion.It will be wrong for some body to say that 'The aeroplane was flying from Kaduna to Lagos last week.' What the student will use in this kind of grammatical context is the past simple tense as aready explained. In a similar vein it will be wrong to say or write , 'Okolo was taking his common entrance last year.
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