What are simple tenses ?

Simple tenses are verb tenses that are used to describe actions that are completed or ongoing at a specific point in time. There are three simple tenses in English: present simple, past simple, and future simple. These tenses do not involve any auxiliary verbs and are used to convey straightforward information about when an action takes place.

Simple Tenses are verb forms that express actions or events in their most basic, uninflected form. They typically do not use auxiliary verbs (such as have, has, had, do, does, did, will) and occur in only one word.

There are three main simple tenses in English:

Present Simple

- Indicates an action that is happening now or occurs regularly
- Formed by using the base form of the verb (e.g., walk, talk, eat)
- Example: I walk to school every day.

Past Simple

- Indicates an action that happened at a specific point in the past
- Formed by adding -ed or -d to the base form of the verb (e.g., walked, talked, ate) or using irregular past tense forms (e.g., went, took, did)
- Example: I walked to school yesterday.

Future Simple

- Indicates an action that will happen in the future
- Formed by using the word "will" before the base form of the verb (e.g., will walk, will talk, will eat)
- Example: I will walk to school tomorrow.

Note:

- Some verbs do not have an irregular past tense form and simply add -ed to the base form (e.g., played, closed).
- Some verbs are irregular in both the past simple and past participle forms (e.g., went, gone; took, taken).
- Simple tenses are often used in conjunction with adverbs of time to indicate when an action occurs (e.g., now, yesterday, tomorrow).