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“Simple” because the tense is formed without any auxiliary verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have. Full definition →
“Simple” because the tense is formed without any auxiliary verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.