The simple preterit is a cousin of the imperfect French. At preterit, verbs take the ending -ed, except for irregular verbs. When the verb that we want to conjugate to the preterit is composed of a single syllable, we double the last consonant and add the ending -ed at the end and the past composed is a time formed of the auxiliary having or being in the present followed by the past participle of the conjugated verb.
in english,a composite past is translated: by a simple preterite, when it is used, as a simple past, to tell facts belonging to a past past: by a simple perfect present or in be + V-ing, when it expresses a past action still closely related to the present.
Ex. : Brian has passed allhis exam
