Question

Identify the tense "Nick purchased a new laptop"​

Answer 1

The sentence is written in past tense.

• To identify the tense of the sentence we need to look at the verb used in the sentence.
• The verb in the given sentence is "purchased".
• We can observe that the verb used is in past tense because it is of the form: verb+ ed.
• Past tense implies something that has been done in the past.

Answer 2

Identify the tense "Nick purchased a new laptop"​

The given tense is Simple Past Tense

• Past tense describes an action that was done in the past time. In the given sentence, the verb 'purchased' is the past tense word.

There are four past tenses:

1) Simple Past Tense: I went to the park.

2) Past Continuous Tense: I was going to the park.

3) Past Perfect Tense: I had gone to the park.

4) Past Perfect Continuous Tense: I had been going to the park.