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How do the tenses in English correspond temporally to one another?

Since watching TV is a completed action which happened last night, which one is correct?

  • Last night I have watched TV.
  • Last night I watched TV.
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A similar example related to that question would be "I watched T.V." but my question is specially about the event happened 'last night'. – user143212 Aug 24 '12 at 18:54
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When a clause contains a specific past time reference, such as last night, the normal verb form is the past tense.

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