L7 AD2024 PAST TENSES: SIMPLE, CONTINUOUS, PERFECT AND PERFECT CONTINU

PAST

• Simple
• Continuous
• Perfect
• Perfect Continuous

Different grammar tenses are used in different situations or contexts and carry different meanings.

Simple Past

1. Always refers to an action or situation that is finished. I prepared this presentation last week. 2. Events in a story or series of events in the past. Normally refers to the main events. Gina met Mario at a party, then he invited her to a concert. After 2 months Mario asked her to marry him.

USES:

Simple Past

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REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS:

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Simple Past

STRUCTURES:

+ POSITIVE

- NEGATIVE

? QUESTION

Past Continuous

1. To give the background of the story, it refers to actions in progress at an specific time. 2. A "long action" interrupted by "short action"

In the middle of the class, he was dancing. They were studying when he started dancing.

PAST PROGRESSIVE

Was / Were

+ POSITIVE

- NEGATIVE

? QUESTION

Past Perfect

1. To mention a past action that happened before the main event.

7:00 pm

5:00 pm

My mom had already cleaned the house (at 5:00 pm), when my dad arrived. By the time he got home, she had already washed all the dishes.

We use this tense to emphasize that the action was completed.

Past Perfect

STRUCTURES:

+ POSITIVE

- NEGATIVE

? QUESTION

Past Perfect Continuous

1. It is used to describe longer events that were in progress either before or up to the main event. It is used to emphasize the duration of the action.

They had been playing all day long in the beach when the shark attacked the surfer.

Past Perfect Continuous

STRUCTURES:

+ POSITIVE

- NEGATIVE

? QUESTION

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