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PAST TENSE (PAST SIMPLE (Regular Verbs (Did+S+V? (Did you brush your teeth…
PAST TENSE
PAST SIMPLE
:<3: to talk about actions finished in the past
:warning: Adverb : yesterday,last week,two days ago,in 2005
Regular Verbs
S+V(ed)
Tom
played
football yesterday.
S+did not+V
I
did not
go to school.
:
Did+S+V?
Did
you brush your teeth last night?
Irregular Verbs
S+V2
I
drove
dad's car last week.
must know!!
go - went - gone
do - did -done
buy - bought -bought
bear - bore - born
PAST PERFECT
:<3:to express the idea that some thing occured before anothe action in the past
:<3:It can show that something happened before a specific time in the past
:<3:show that something started in the past and continued up till another action in the past
S+had+V3
She
had
just
left
when I arrived.
I
had owned
our car for 10 years before it finally died.
They
had been
married for 5 years when they had their own child.
PAST CONTINUOUS
:<3: to talk about action that was already happening at a perticular time in the past
I/He/She/It
S+was+Ving
It
was snowing
all day lang yesterday
S+wasn't+Ving
He
wasn't doing
his homework at 4 pm yesterday.
Was+S+Ving?
Was
she
watching
TV last Sunday evening?
We/You/They
S+were+Ving
We
were playing
basketball yesterday afternoon.
S+weren't+Ving
We
weren't having
a picnic yesterday.
Were+S+Ving
Were
you
drinking
coffee at the cafe?
Past perfect continuous
S+had been +Ving
:<3:Duration
Duration before something in the past.
I
had not been
studying English very long.
:<3:Cause of something in the past
He was tired because he
had been
jogging.
Sue gained weight because he
had been
eating too much.
