"past" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The present perfect is often used also for completed events where English would use the simple past.
- French simple past is mostly used in a narrative way to tell stories and describe successive actions.
- In the oral language, the simple past is rarely used except with story telling.
- The first preterite can be compared with the simple past in English.
- To fight the battle of the present, the young woman sent her thoughts into the simpler past.
- The English simple past can express either of these concepts.
- In the fifth example, only the simple past is possible.
- In the remaining cases, both languages use a simple past.
- The simple past is often close in meaning to the present perfect.
- The simple past also has some uses in which it does not refer to a past time.
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