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Never used to have ______
Never used to have ______
problems
Never used to have ______
Never used to have ______
money
Never used to have ______
Never used to have ______
issues
The simple past or past indefinite, sometimes called the preterite, is the basic form of the ______ tense in Modern English.
The simple past or past indefinite, sometimes called the preterite, is the basic form of the ______ tense in Modern English.
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Regular English verbs form the simple past in -______; however, there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms.
Regular English verbs form the simple past in -______; however, there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms.
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The term 'simple' is used to distinguish the syntactical construction whose basic form uses the plain past ______ alone, from other past tense constructions which use auxiliaries in combination with participles, such as the past perfect and past progressive.
The term 'simple' is used to distinguish the syntactical construction whose basic form uses the plain past ______ alone, from other past tense constructions which use auxiliaries in combination with participles, such as the past perfect and past progressive.
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Regular verbs form the simple past ______; however, there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms.
Regular verbs form the simple past ______; however, there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms.
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The spelling rules for forming the past simple of regular verbs are as follows: verbs ending in -e add only –______ to the end (e.g. live – lived, not *liveed), verbs ending in -y change to -ied (e.g. study – studied) and verbs ending in a group of a consonant + a vowel + a conso.
The spelling rules for forming the past simple of regular verbs are as follows: verbs ending in -e add only –______ to the end (e.g. live – lived, not *liveed), verbs ending in -y change to -ied (e.g. study – studied) and verbs ending in a group of a consonant + a vowel + a conso.
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