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Simple past past perfect

could you please tell me the defferance bettween simple past and past perfect and how i can use them?
  

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Basically the past simple is for completed actions that have finished in the past and the past perfect describes actions that finished up to a certain point in the past. This is also known as the past of the past. " The action of eating cookies is over, it finished yesterday The cookies could have been eaten at anytime yesterday.

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  • Basically the past simple is for completed actions that have finished in the past and the past perfect describes actions that finished up to a certain point in the past.
  • This is also known as the past of the past.
  • " The action of eating cookies is over, it finished yesterday The cookies could have been eaten at anytime yesterday.
  • " This lets the listener know that the 2 cookies were eaten I ate dinner (which is a completed action in the past) "When I got home, I realized that I had lost my keys" The keys were lost anytime before I got home (which is a completed action in the past) I hope this gives you a basic understanding of the difference.
  • More examples on the past simple can be found here Past Simple Rules and Quiz
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Basically the past simple is for completed actions that have finished in the past and the past perfect describes actions that finished up to a certain point in the past. This is also known as the past of the past.

For example -

"I ate two cookies yesterday." The action of eating cookies is over, it finished yesterday The cookies could have been eaten at anytime yesterday.
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