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PAST SIMPLE VS PAST PERFECT (PAST PERFECT (Use to... (In if (conditional)…
PAST SIMPLE VS PAST PERFECT
PAST PERFECT
Use to...
In if (conditional) sentences
She wouldn't have been able to finish, if
you hadn't helped
her (but you didn't help her and she did finish)
In reported speech
John said that
he had never eaten
sushi before.
for actions that happened befor a past even.
As soon as
she had done
her homework, she went to bed.
Form:
?
HAD + subject + Verb in past participial.
Had she eaten?
-
Subject + HADN'T + Verb in past participial.
She hadn't eaten.
+
Subject + HAD + verb in past participle.
She had eaten.
PAST SIMPLE
Form:
-
Subject + did not + verb + complements
I didn't play with my friend
?
Did + subject + verb + complements
Did I play with my friend
+
Subject + verb in past + complements
I played with my friend.
Used to...
Actions finished in the past
I visited Berlin last week.
Expressions with ago with the past simple
I met my wife a long time ago.
Something that was true for some time in the past:
I lived abroad for ten years.
Something that happened several times in the past:
When I was a child, I walked a mile to school every day.