The Simple Past

The simple past is used to talk about things that happened in the past and are finished.

With the simple past there is always a clear indication of time.

1. It says something about frequency (often, sometimes, always),
2. A specific moment in time (last week, in 1990, yesterday, at seven o'clock)
3. An undefined moment in time (the other day, ages ago, a long time ago)

The simple past is made by adding -ed to the verb  (attention: this is only true for regular verbs).

Examples:

I walked to school yesterday.

The computer played the song every other day.

The boys always camped outside in the summer.