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PAST SIMPLE AND PAST PERFECT SIMPLE - Coggle Diagram
PAST SIMPLE AND PAST PERFECT SIMPLE
PAST SIMPLE
POSITIVE
S + V (past = 2 col. / +ed)
NEGATIVE
S + Didn't + verb (inf.)
INTERROGATIVE
(WH) + Did + S + V (inf.)?
+
Yes, I did
-
No, I didn't
KEY WORDS
Last week / year / month
Yesterday
In 2007...
Ago
PAST PERFECT SIMPLE
POSITIVE
S + Had + V (Participle = 3 col. / +ed)
KEY WORDS
Before
NEGATIVE
S + Hadn't + V (Participle)
INTERROGATIVE
(WH) + Had + S + V (Participle) ?
+
Yes, I had.
-
No, I hadn't
EXAMPLES
PAST PERFECT SIMPLE
She had had an exam.
We hadn't travelled to London.
Had you filmed the movie?
PAST SIMPLE
We passed the exam.
She didn't drink coffe.
Did we go to Spain?
TENSES DIFFERENCES
We use the
past perfect simple
when we want to show that something started and finished before something else in the past.
We use the
past simple
to show the most recent action.