- What is the simple past of exercise?
- What is past simple of use?
- What are two uses of past simple?
- What is the difference between past simple and used to?
What is the simple past of exercise?
The past tense of exercise is exercised. The third-person singular simple present indicative form of exercise is exercises. The present participle of exercise is exercising. The past participle of exercise is exercised.
What is past simple of use?
The Past Simple Tense is used to refer to actions that were completed in a time period before the present time. ... The action may have been in the recent past or a long time ago.
What are two uses of past simple?
Using the past simple
- We use it with finished actions, states or habits in the past when we have a finished time word (yesterday, last week, at 2 o'clock, in 2003). ...
- We use it with finished actions, states or habits in the past when we know from general knowledge that the time period has finished.
What is the difference between past simple and used to?
We can always use the past simple as an alternative to used to or would to talk about past states or habits. The main difference is that the past simple doesn't emphasise the repeated or continuous nature of the action or situation. Also, the past simple doesn't make it so clear that the thing is no longer true.