Simple Tenses
The easiest way to describe a simple tense is to contrast it with a COMPOUND Tense.
A Compound tense has 2 portions for the verb.
For example: I am swimming. "Am swimming" is the verb "am" is a helping verb and both parts are essential.
Another example is: I have gone to the the beach. "have gone" is the full verb and "have" is the helping verb to "gone".
So a simple tense is when you DON'T have the helping verb. It will look like this:
I ran to the store.
Mike swims alot.
In Spanish a simple tense is any tense where the verb only uses 1 word (like the example above in BOLD).
Now feel free to explore the submenus of "simple tenses" on this website.
A Compound tense has 2 portions for the verb.
For example: I am swimming. "Am swimming" is the verb "am" is a helping verb and both parts are essential.
Another example is: I have gone to the the beach. "have gone" is the full verb and "have" is the helping verb to "gone".
So a simple tense is when you DON'T have the helping verb. It will look like this:
I ran to the store.
Mike swims alot.
In Spanish a simple tense is any tense where the verb only uses 1 word (like the example above in BOLD).
Now feel free to explore the submenus of "simple tenses" on this website.