Sentence examples for simple past from inspiring English sources

Use "sank" for the simple past tense.

The first part, which consists of stories based on the Holocaust, is entitled "Passato Prossimo," which means "Simple Past," as in the simple past tense.

It is just that writing in the simple past exhorts on me a terrible sense of tedium.

"Since" means from then till now, so it should usually be used with the present perfect tense, not the simple past tense.

It seems this is now the mantra of a games industry facing a complex future while seeking to cash in on our adoration of the simple past.

a. articles ("a cookie") b. plural ("two cookies") c. present progressive ("I walking") d. simple past ("Joey walked") e. contraction ("that's Joey") 8.

Old houses and buildings reflect Shelter Island's simpler past.

There is a deep sense of the family reviving a meal from the kids' childhood and from a simpler past.

Widespread though it is, the lure of a simpler past has been most evident on television, where simplicity thrives.

A year overshadowed by concern for Hollywood's commercial and technological future seems likely to end with a celebration of its simpler past.

On many big public questions, he proposes a middle course between faith in scientific progress and nostalgia for a simpler past.