As they dominated their respective sports at a historic level, the two shared a respect for each other that went well past simple congratulatory text messages.
The basic present and past tenses of the verb are called simple present (present simple) and simple past (past simple), to distinguish them from progressive or other compound forms.
I'll also show some of the new approaches that our team developed for comparing and analyzing courses that get us past simple metrics like numbers of registrants or completion rates.