curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-ask-and-share-about-educational-and-professional-background/657b160d6a8662610fe6a523.md
The Past Simple tense is used for actions or situations that were completed in the past.
Regular verbs in the past tense usually end with -ed, while irregular verbs have unique past forms. For example, as you learned in previous tasks, was and were are the past forms of is and are.
Here are more examples of the Past Simple tense:
I worked at a company. - Here, work becomes worked.I was happy. - Here, is becomes was.We were busy. - Here, are becomes were.Hello! Certainly. I BLANK at Mock Corporation for five years. I BLANK part of a team of software engineers, and we BLANK responsible for developing and maintaining various applications.
worked
This verb means doing a job. It ends in -ed.
was
This is the past simple form of verb to be, used with I, he, she, or it.
were
This is the past simple form of verb to be, used with you, we, or they.
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