Forma	Para…	Ejemplo
Simple past	lo que pasó y terminó	We arrived on Monday. I bought a coat.
Past continuous	la escena: lo que estaba pasando	It was raining when we arrived.
Used to	costumbres y estados de antes	I used to spend my summers in a village.

Los verbos regulares añaden -ed: arrive → arrived, walk → walked. Los irregulares hay que aprenderlos de memoria: go → went, have → had, buy → bought, eat → ate, sit → sat, see → saw, get → got, take → took.