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PAST SIMPLE VS PAST PERFECT

Past Simple vs Past Perfect

ZOHRA BENAMAR GHZIEL

PAST SIMPLE

USE:We use past simple with finished actions,states or habits in the past. We usually have a past time word (Yesterday, last week, last Summer, in 1975...)

Click bellow for some short examples!

STRUCTURE: Subject + - Regular Verbs: Ending in -ed - Irregular Verbs: Change their form

PAST PERFECT

USE:We use the past perfect to describe a past action that occured before another past action.

STRUCTURE: It is formed using the auxiliary "had" + the past participle of the main verb.

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NOTE: These are some time expressions used with this tense: already, yet, by the time, when, just, before/after...

PAST SIMPLE

ANOTHER EXAMPLE COMBINING PAST SIMPLE AND PAST PERFECT

PAST PERFECT

When I arrived to the train station at 08:36 a.m.

PAST SIMPLE

The train had already left at 08:33 a.m.

08:33 a.m.

08:36 a.m.

Now, let's move to a few simple quizzes to practice !So, Click on the keys below and ENJOOOY!!

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