past tense vs simple past

past tense and simple past both are nouns.

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

As nouns, simple past is a hyponym of past tense; that is, simple past 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
simple past: 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, past simple.

past tense (noun)	simple past (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 simple past

past tense and simple past both are nouns.

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