In this case, the process of the action is long and is used by specifying time periods such as ‘the whole year’ or ‘all day’. I finished work, walked to the beach and met my friends. It’s also possible to use the simple past in a sentence without specifying a time, but it must have previously been made clear that the speaker is referring to a finished period.
So let’s start learning the Simple Past Tense – one of the most common tenses in spoken English – and the points to pay attention to. The action may have been in the recent past or a long time ago. What matters is that the action was completed in the past. In the Simple Past the process of performing the action is not important. The Past Simple Tense is used to refer to actions that were completed in a time period before the present time.
