SIMPLE PAST USE

It's the past in English. It serves to express past actions, both close in time and distant. It is not relevant the duration of the action itself, but whether the action has been completed or not. It is formed with the regular or irregular past of the main verb and the auxiliary verb do.

Below, some of its most relevant uses:

1. The simple past is used to talk about a concrete action that began and ended in the past, which usually equates to the indefinite Spanish past. We use it with adverbs of time like "last year", "yesterday", "last night" ...

2. The simple past is used for a set of actions carried out in the past.

3. Likewise, it is common to use it for repeated or daily actions in the past, similar to the imperfect Spanish past tense.

4. It is used to talk about generalities or past events.