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The meaning of the English word "simple" and how you use it

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simple
(adjective) easy to comprehend or do; not hard
Adrián Camacho

Adrián Camacho

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Adrián is a SP language assistant, EN-SP content localizer, and EN tutor living in Guadalajara, Mexico. He holds a bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Cultures and has worked in language-learning for almost 10 years.
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This book is simple .
Making cookies is a simple task .
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Video Examples

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Monkeys Fight for Fairness
Each monkey carries out a simple task .
How to Run Faster
Integrate some simple practices
Building a Worthwhile Network
We 'll start with a simple question : Why do we network ?
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simple
(adjective) not elaborate or elegant; plain
Adrián Camacho

Adrián Camacho

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Adrián is a SP language assistant, EN-SP content localizer, and EN tutor living in Guadalajara, Mexico. He holds a bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Cultures and has worked in language-learning for almost 10 years.
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Stacy wore a simple dress to the party .
This is a simple meal that tastes delicious .
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Video Examples

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Sustainability and the Value Chain
A simple tea bag .
What You Should Wear This Year
Reese Witherspoon does daytime gingham right in a simple checked skirt paired with go-to basics ,
Nintendo's Stock Soars with Pokemon GO
but it is a big deal because this is a very simple technology ,
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past simple
(noun) a tense used to describe something that happened in the past; also called simple past "past tense"
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Jeeyoung

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Jeeyoung completed her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction with an ESL emphasis at Texas A&M University. Her dissertation work was honored with a grant from the Barbara Bush Family Literacy Foundation. Her research interests include second language learning, family literacy, and dyslexia from a sociocultural perspective. Her co-authored articles and book chapters have been published. Additionally, she has been working as a translator and localizer, living in the US.
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If you want to describe something that happened in the past , use past simple .
I used past simple there because I knew when it happened .
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Present, Past & Future Verb Tenses
If you know exactly when something happened , you use the past simple .
Past Simple vs. Present Perfect
I 'm going to show you when to use a past simple and when to use a present perfect ,
Past Simple vs. Present Perfect
The first sentence is in the past simple tense ,
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simple past
(noun) a tense used to describe something that happened before
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Kanako

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Kanako has an AAS in administrative office technology. She is a native Japanese speaker and studied English literature prior to moving to the U.S. She has also taken correspondence courses in EN-JP translation and works as a translator/localizer which involves tasks such as editing machine translations and localizing web contents. She has also worked as an in-person interpreter for businesses based in Japan.
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" I went there " uses the simple past .
Simple past tense is used when an event has been completed .
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Present Perfect vs. Simple Past
Present perfect versus the simple past .
Present Perfect vs. Simple Past
The simple past is used for specific time .
Present Perfect vs. Simple Past
Here we used a specific time , " last year ", so we use the simple past .
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simple
(adjective) a group of verb forms that use only one word, such as simple present tense or simple past tense
Yeonji Nam

Yeonji Nam

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Yeonji is a native Korean speaker and has worked for over 10 years as a Korean teacher, translator, and creator of Korean language learning material. She is enthusiastic about learning languages and different cultures. She holds JLPT 1 and hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean) certifications.
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Clickable Example Sentences

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" Finish " and " finished " are both simple verb forms .
" I ran " uses the simple past tense .
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Video Examples

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Should I Use "To" or "For"?
This grammar is in the simple present tense , so we have past , future , and present tense .
10 Ways to Say "I Don't Know" in English
You can only use it in the simple form , like this ,
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