But, " had" , that's the simple past of " have" .

但 had 是 have 的一般过去式。

Now, we will move to the simple past tense.

现在，我们来看看一般过去时。

And then we have the simple past.

然后是简单的过去。

The tense in the if Clause is the simple past.

If 从句中的时态为一般过去时。

In American English, we use the simple past to do this.

在美式英语中，我们会用一般过去式来表达。

We use ago in sentences that are in the simple past.

我们在一般过去时的句子中使用“ago”。

You also can use do to ask a question in the simple past tense.

你还可以使用do的一般过去式提问。

To use WISH about the present, you can use the simple past.

要表示现在的愿望，你可以用一般过去时。

When we're giving news in American English, we often use the simple past.

在美式英语中，当我们讲述新消息时，我们通常会使用一般过去时。

Americans also tend to use the simple past tense while Britons use the present perfect.

不过美国人依然倾向于用一般过去式，而英国人依然会用现在完成式。

For regular verbs, the past participle form is the same as the simple past.

常规的动词形式，动词的过去分词形式和一般过去时一样。

Note that the speaker began in the simple past with the words I looked over...

注意说话者以一般过去时开头，用的是 I looked over。

" read" , the simple past is " read" , which is a homophone for the colour red.

" read" ，简单的过去就是" read" ，这是红色的同音词。

So, the problem is using the past participle, " seen" when you should use the simple past.

所以，问题在于使用了过去分词seen当你应该要用过去简单式的时候。

With 'yet' and 'already' we usually use the present perfect, not the simple past.

在使用 yet 和 already 时，我们通常会使用现在完成时，而不是一般过去时。

In American English, the present perfect has been losing out to the simple past for some time.

在美式英语中，现在完成时已经不如一般过去时了。

We also explored how Americans have been using the simple past more often than the present perfect.

我们还探讨了美国人如何更经常地使用一般过去时而不是现在完成时。

The basic idea is that the speakers often used the present perfect in place of the simple past.

其基本理念是，说话者经常用现在完成时来代替一般过去时。

In this example, we have the simple past form of hope, but we can use other past forms.

在这个例子中，我们用 hope 的一般过去式，但是我们也可以用其他过去式。

But when we're speaking informally, we often use the simple past.

但是当我们在非正式场合说话时，我们通常会使用一般过去时。