said by JALevinworth : I'm sorry to say, a lot. Stealing your car's documents is big business, and why many say they should no longer be kept in an unattended car or at least not in an unlocked glove box (or elsewhere not obvious). Your registration and insurance has your driver's license number on it. Fake driver's licenses are big business as it's used as a primary document for identification, as well as for other means to identify people (government forms, such as SS#, opening a bank account, etc.).
There are various differences between the uses of the preterit and the uses of the imperfect tenses and all uses are in the past. 1. When to use the Preterit Tense- The preterit tense is commonly used to express: 1  An action that starts and ends in the past. 2  Actions that occur only one time.  Conclusions.
Simple past tense. Definition of the simple past tense. The simple past tense, sometimes called the preterite, is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. The simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important.