Kita memakai Simple Past untuk berbicara tentang tindakan dan pernyatakaan yang kita lihat sudah terjadi di masa lampau.
Kita bisa memakainya untuk berbicara tentang hal tertentu dalam suatu waktu.
- She came back last Friday.
- I saw her in the street.
- They didn't agree to the deal.
Bisa juga dipakai untuk berbicara tentang suatu waktu.
- She lived in Tokyo for seven years.
- They were in London from Monday to Thursday of last week.
- When I was living in New York, I went to all the art exhibitions I could.
Kamu akan sering menemukan di Simple Pasti yang digunakan dengan ekspresi waktu seperti:
- Yesterday
- three weeks ago
- last year
- in 2002
- from March to June
- for a long time
- for 6 weeks
- in the 1980s
- in the last century
- in the past