Grammar

It is used in the cases which people are affected by their work themselves, in other words, in the cases which subject and object are the same person. Look at your arm. You have painted yourself. I cut myself while I was peeling potatoes for dinner. Talking to oneself is …

The Simple Past Tense, sometimes called the "Preterite", is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. The Simple Past Tense is the basic form of past tense in English. The time of action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important.