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Past tenses - Coggle Diagram
Past tenses
Past simple
finished action
She became a good climber
regular verbs
add -(e)d
She climbed a mountain.
plan - planned (CVC)
rob - robbed
try - tried
play - played
a vowel +y +ed - doesn't change
a consonant + y + ed - ied
question: Did she climb Mt Everest in 2015?
Why did she do it?
negative: Dan didn't write his homework.
irregular verbs
go - went
I went to the seaside last summer.
time expressions
yesterday
two days/weeks/years ago
last year/ summer/ January
an hour / two minutes ago
when I was little
Past continuous
affirmative: I /She was reading./ We were reading
negative: She wasn't reading / You weren't reading.
question: Were you reading? / Was he reading?
Use
action in progress
At nine o'clock she was studying for exam.
description
It was raining.
longer (Past continuous)/shorter action (Past simple)
They were sleeping when we arrived.
We arrived while they were sleeping.