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Past tenses - Coggle Diagram
Past tenses
Past Continuous
a past action in progress when another action occurred
to set the scene to a story
an action in the past that is interrupted (usually by the past simple)
past continuous: questions
(question word)
Was
I/he/she/it
Were
you/we/they
going home?
past continuous: short answers
Yes,
I/he/she/it
was
you/we/they
were
No,
I/he/she/it
wasn’t (was not).
you/we/they
weren’t (were not).
past continuous: positive and negative
I/He/She/It
was/wasn’t (was not)
going home.
You/We/They
were/weren’t (were not)
Past Simple
an action that started and finished in the pas
one completed action after another
a past habit or regular past event
past simple: negative (regular and irregular verbs)
I/You/He/She/It/We/They
didn’t go home.
past simple: questions (regular and irregular verbs)
(question word)
Did
I/you/he/she/it/we/they
go home?
past simple: positive
regular verbs: I/You/He/She/It/We/They lived here
irregular verbs: I/You/He/She/It/We/They went home
past simple: short answers
Yes,
I/you/he/she/it/we/they
did.
No,
I/you/he/she/it/we/they
didn’t.