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Past simple for past habits and states

habitual actions
past
simple
state

The past simple is used to express habits and states that existed during a period of time in the past. This period can be implied or expressed with a time expression or a clause:

State verbs and action verbs

continuous
simple
state

State verbs

State verbs express states or conditions which are relatively static. They include verbs of perception, cognition, the senses, emotion and state of being:

Verbs which cannot be used in the passive voice

passive
state

Intransitive verbs

Intransitive verbs (verbs that do not take an object) cannot be passive. For this reason, the following sentences have no passive equivalents:

We arrived home late at night.
Did you sleep well?
He was running too fast.