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simple pasts

simple pasts is the plural of simple past.

Meaning of simple past

Noun

simple past (plural simple pasts)

  1. A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.
    Synonyms:
    preterite, preterit

Questions about simple pasts

What is simple pasts the plural of?
Simple pasts is the plural of simple past.

Words near simple pasts in the dictionary

  1. simple microscope
  2. simple microscopes
  3. simple myopia
  4. simple myopias
  5. simple past
  6. simple pasts
  7. simple pendulum
  8. simple pendulums
  9. simple present
  10. simple presents
  11. simple quadruple time

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