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Section 11.3.1.2

Simple Past Tense

Use the simple past tense to express action completed at a specific time in the past. To form the past tense, add the ending -ed to the base form of the verb. (But see Irregular Verbs for verbs that form the past tense differently.)


In the Los Angeles basin during December 1982, acid fog reached a level of acidity comparable to that of vinegar.

--C. Donald Ahrens, Meteorology Today


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