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Which of the following can appear in a clause in the simple past aspect?

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Which of the following can appear in a clause in the simple past aspect?

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The question asks which element can appear in a clause in the simple past aspect.
First, note that the provided answer indicated is: 'A finite main verb'.
In a typical simple past clause, the main predicate is expressed by a finite verb form that marks past tense, as in 'She walked yesterday' or 'They arrived on time'. This finite main verb carries the past tense morphology and serves as the core of the clause.
If the options had included a non-finite form (for example, a plain infinitive like 'to walk' or a participle form like 'walking'), these cannot serve as the main verb of a simple past clause because non-finite forms do not encode tense by themselves and do not establish past reference in isolation.
Similarly, if an option suggested only an auxiliary or a non-finite element without a finite main verb, that would not align with the standard structure of a simple past clause in English, where the predicate is realized by a finite past-tense form of the verb (or, in some analyses, by 'did' plus the base form of the main verb in questions/negations; but in that construction, the main verb is not the finite past form).
Since the provided correct answer states that a finite main verb can appear, this is consistent with the canonical characterization of the simple past: the clause contains a finite verb expressing past tense as the main predicate.
If there were other options, they would typically be incorrect because they involve non-finite forms or structures that do not themselves carry past tense as the main verb.

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