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PAST TENSES - Coggle Diagram
PAST TENSES
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
To say how long for unfinished actions
We've been waiting for the bus for hours.
For temporary habits or situations.
I’ve been going to the gym a lot recently.
Actions which have recently stopped
I'm so tired, I've been studying.
PRESENT PERFECT
unfinished actions
Life experience
A finished action with a result in the present
She's hurt her leg. (I can see the cast)
I've known Karen since 1994.
They have visited Paris three times.
PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
how long something had been happening before something else happened
after
by the time
before
She had been
waiting for Jack for 30 minutes when he arrived.
PAST PERFECT
something had happened before something else happened
before
after
by the time
She had read a comic before she went to bed.
WAS/WERE ABOUT TO+INF.
WAS/WERE GOING TO+INF.
it refers to something that was going to happen but in the end it did not happen.
I was going to call you but I lost your phone number.
PAST CONTINUOUS
action which was in progress at special time in the past
when
while
Joe was writing an e-mail at 5 o'clock yesterday evening.
PAST SIMPLE
action finished in the past
last ...
... ago
in 2010
yesterday
We were in the USA and visited Alaska last year.