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When do we use it?
The simple past is used to speak of a concrete action that began and ended in the past -
COMPONENTS
Subject (I, he, she, it, you, we, they), Auxiliary (did) and
Gerund(wanted, learned, stayed, walked...) -
FORM AFFIRMATIVE
Subject + verb in past (ed ending, exept in irregular verbs) -
EXAMPLE
--> The keys were in the drawer -
FORM NEGATIVE
-Subject + did not (did not) + infinitive verb
-Subject + "to be" + not -
EXAMPLE
-->They didn't learn English
-->She wasn't a doctor -
FORM INTERROGATIVE
-Did + subject + infinitive verb?
-To be + Subject? -
EXAMPLE
-->Did you buy a blue car?
-->Were the keys in the drawer?