Now, we will move to the simple past tense.

现在，我们来看看一般过去时。

You also can use do to ask a question in the simple past tense.

你还可以使用do的一般过去式提问。

The first one or two questions are simple present and simple past tense.

前一两个问题是一般现在时和一般过去时。

Americans also tend to use the simple past tense while Britons use the present perfect.

不过美国人依然倾向于用一般过去式，而英国人依然会用现在完成式。

We can say, “So did I” and “Neither did I” to agree with statements in the simple past tense.

我们可以说 So did I 和 Neither did I 来表示赞同一般过去时陈述。

" Ago" is always placed after a time expression and It's typically used with simple past tenses, not perfect tenses.

“Ago”通常放在时间表达式之后，通常与一般过去时连用，而不是完成时。

Note that both these actions -- " start" and " read" are single actions, using verbs in the simple past tense.

请注意这两个动作，开始和阅读都是单一动作，使用动词的一般过去时态。

Note that both these actions – " start" and " read" are single actions, using verbs in the simple past tense.

注意这两个动作——" start" 和" read" 都是短暂性动作，动词用的都是一般过去时。

And the second clause takes the simple past tense.

第二个从句采用简单过去时。

" Fought" is the simple past tense for the verb " to fight."

“战斗” 是动词“战斗” 的简单过去式。

" talked" is what we call the simple past tense, there's no " have" .

，“talked” 就是我们所说的一般过去时， 没有“have” 。

Now normally under normal circumstances, we'd wanna just add an ed to it in order to form the simple past tense.

Now normally under normal circumstances, we'd want to add an ed to it to form the simple past tense. 现在通常在正常情况下，我们只想在其中添加一个 ed 以形成简单的过去时。

The suffix 'ed' has a grammatical function you probably know - it changes the tense of the verb to simple past tense.

后缀“ed”具有您可能知道的语法功能 - 它将动词的时态更改为简单过去时。

" Went" is an example of the simple past tense or the past simple whereas " I've been" is an example of present perfect.

“Went”是简单过去时或过去简单时的一个例子，而“I've been”是现在完成时的一个例子。

" If I won" , I have simple past tense, plus " would" in the second clause, in the condition clause, in the result clause.

“如果我赢了” ，我有简单的过去时，在第二个从句中， 在条件从句中， 在结果从句中加上“would” 。

We have a lot of verbs-42-and we need to know, you need to know the present tense, the simple past tense, and something that's called the past participle.

我们有很多动词——42——我们需要知道，你需要知道现在时， 简单过去时， 还有一些叫做过去分词的东西。

I would buy a boat and sail around the world with my friends all right, so another example again using the same structure right the verb in the simple past tense.

我会买一艘船和我的朋友们一起环游世界，所以另一个例子再次使用相同的结构， 用简单的过去时来代替动词。

So, first of all, just to show the simple past tense of " can" , if I can do something: I can do something today, yesterday I could do it as well; or I couldn't do it yesterday, you could use the negative as well.

所以，首先，只是为了显示“can”的一般过去时，if I can do something：I can do something today, yesterday I could do it as well；或者我昨天做不到，你也可以用底片。

Listen to an American use the simple past tense to talk about a lost object