http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/SimplePastOrPastSimple/gngww/post.htm#566925Tue, 26 May 2009 06:43:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:566925Anonymous0http://www.englishforums.com/English/SimplePastOrPastSimple/gngww/post.htm#566925http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-566925.xmlGoogle: 71,300 English pages for &quot;the present simple &quot; . 42,700 English pages for &quot;the simple present &quot; .http://www.englishforums.com/English/SimplePastOrPastSimple/gngww/post.htm#566920Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:43:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:566920Clive1http://www.englishforums.com/English/SimplePastOrPastSimple/gngww/post.htm#566920http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-566920.xmlHi, My guess is just tradition. Even then, I&#39;ve read and heard both names. Best wishes, Clivehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/SimplePastOrPastSimple/gngww/post.htmThu, 26 Mar 2009 07:43:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:566873Anonymous2http://www.englishforums.com/English/SimplePastOrPastSimple/gngww/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-566873.xmlHi everybody, Why do all the Grammar books use the expressions &quot;simple present&quot; and &quot;simple past&quot;, although all the other tenses start with the tense-marker and add the aspect-marker then: present progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, past progressive, past perfect, past perfect progressive. Couldn&#39;t it be more logical to then say &quot;present simple&quot; and &quot;past simple&quot;? Yours, D.S. Elfers