a tense of verbs, in English and other languages, not involving the use of an auxiliary verb in addition to the main verb, as for example the past he drowned as opposed to the future he will drown
Examples of 'simple tense' in a sentence
simple tense
Afterwards, a grammar pretest having 30 items focusing on past simple tense was given to both groups.
Hanieh Kashi 2018, 'Effect of Inter-sentential vs Intra-sentential Code-Switching: With a Focus on PastTense', International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literaturehttps://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/4166. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)