past tense vs past simple

past tense and past simple both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
past tense	Yes	No	No	No
past simple	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, past simple is a hyponym of past tense; that is, past simple is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than past tense:

past tense: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
past simple: the form of a verb used to describe an action that happened before the present time and is no longer happening.

Other hyponyms of past tense include preterit, preterite, simple past.

past tense (noun)	past simple (noun)
a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past	the form of a verb used to describe an action that happened before the present time and is no longer happening.

past tense vs past simple

past tense and past simple both are nouns.

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