What is the name of the tense we use to talk about things that have happened more than once in the past?

past simple
When we talk about something that happened several times in the past, we use the past simple: Most evenings, we stayed at home and watched DVDs.

What do we use to talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the past?

The past continuous tense is used to describe actions that began in the past and often continued for a short period of time after the action started. This tense describes actions or events that happened at a specific time in the past.

How do you use seen and saw?

‘Saw’ is the past tense of the word ‘see’ while ‘seen’ is the past participle. Typically, ‘saw’ comes immediately after the noun or pronoun. For instance, “Steve saw the movie.” ‘Seen’ is never used as a standalone verb and is generally accompanied by words such as ‘have’, ‘had’, ‘was’, among others.

What is the difference between seen and seem?

‘Seen’ means it has been noticed by your power of sight. ‘Seem’ means that it appears to be but may not actually be so. e.g. ‘I have seen the bus come but it seems to be a lot later than it was meant to be’.

What is the meaning of tense in English grammar?

Tense is a grammar term used to indicate whether a sentence (or verb) is an action in the past, the present or the future. An example of tense is a verb that indicates action is going on now, or a sentence about action taking place now. The basic tenses in English are present, past, and future.

Can we use two past tenses together?

It is perfectly allowable (in fact it is required) to use a past simple verb form and a past participle verb form in past perfect and/or past passive tenses.

What do we use to express past actions that took place before another past action occurred?

The past perfect tense is used to show that something happened before another action in the past. It can also be used to show that something happened before a specific time in the past.

Which of these is used to express an action that happened and ended in the past?

The past perfect tense refers to actions that took place and were completed in the past. The past perfect generally emphasizes that one action, event or condition ended before another past action, event or condition began.

How use saw in a sentence?

Saw sentence example

1. I saw his picture on your refrigerator.
2. The wolf saw him.
3. It seems like years since I saw you last.
4. She finished her breakfast with little conversation and saw Sarah and Tammy off to church.
5. I saw something red up there in the rocks.
6. When he saw her, he dropped to her side, deep concern in his eyes.

Did you eat or ate?

Correct is what did you eat. Two past tense can not be present in the same sentence. Did and ate are past tense, hence if you use did, which is a past tense, then ate will become eat. Or you could just ask, what you ate, with just one past tense in the sentence.