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NARRATIVE TENSES

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NARRATIVE TENSES

Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about the past.

  • You can often find them in stories, textbooks, spoken accounts and in descriptions of past events.

Did she tell you about her story?

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EXAMPLES

Past simple: 'We left for the airport on an exceptionally sunny day.'

Past continuous: 'The sun was shining and it was really hot by midday.'

Past perfect: 'It had been sunny on and off for the previous fortnight.'

Past perfect continuous: 'We had been waiting at the airport for what seemed like an eternity.'

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I loved The Davinci Code by Dan Brown

past simple

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past continuous

Tania was crying at the cinema

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past perfect

We had never read such an interesting book!

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past perfect continuous

They had been witing for the movie to start for about 20 minnutes

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