{"id":430,"date":"2021-12-29T04:19:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2021-12-29T04:19:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:19:58","slug":"past-indefinite-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/29\/past-indefinite-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Indefinite Tense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The past indefinite tense, also known as simple past tense, is used to indicate a&nbsp;<strong>finished or completed<\/strong>&nbsp;action\/task that occurred\/happened at&nbsp;<strong>a specific point in time<\/strong>&nbsp;in the past. \u2018A specific time\u2019 can be diverse and can cover a long period of time but it cannot be undeterminable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Structure:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Subject + verb in the past form + . . . . . + adverb of time + . . . . .<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Note:\u00a0Adverb\u00a0of time can also be at the beginning of the\u00a0sentence. Other sentences can also refer to that adverb and can use simple past tense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Alex went to Mexico last year.<\/li><li>I ate a mango a few minutes ago.<\/li><li>He had an exam yesterday.<\/li><li>I used to travel around the world when I was fit. (It can also indicate a habit of the past which is not a habit in the present.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Examples of Past Indefinite Tense<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>I wrote articles on different topics.<\/li><li>He read various kinds of books.<\/li><li>They played football in that field.<\/li><li>She preferred coffee to tea.<\/li><li>He went to the library yesterday.<\/li><li>We came for shopping in this market last week.<\/li><li>We watched a movie in this Cineplex yesterday.<\/li><li>You used to shop in that market.<\/li><li>I sang different kinds of songs, especially modern.<\/li><li>I listened to melodious songs last evening.<\/li><li>He loved to travel around the world.<\/li><li>They played cricket in that field last week.<\/li><li>The poet wrote a romantic poem.<\/li><li>The lyricist wrote a realistic song for the program.<\/li><li>Did you go to the concert of realistic songs?<\/li><li>I could not attend the program because of my busy schedule.<\/li><li>He was a man of parts.<\/li><li>I helped him to do the task.<\/li><li>We enjoyed the program thoroughly.<\/li><li>I went to the Dhaka International Trade Fair with my elder brother.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past indefinite tense, also known as simple past tense, is used to indicate a&nbsp;finished or completed&nbsp;action\/task that occurred\/happened at&nbsp;a specific point in time&nbsp;in the past. \u2018A specific time\u2019 can be diverse and can cover a long period of time but it cannot be undeterminable. Structure: Subject + verb in the past form + . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}