ALEXIS JOHN B. BENEDICTO - this is a help to those who are willing to learn english

1. Prepared by ALEXIS JOHN
B. BENEDICTO
Bachelor of Secondary Education (Major in English)
Publication Adviser “The Herald” , Former Editor in
Chief of the Clarion, Most outstanding Student Teacher,
Most outstanding English Teacher, Journalism
Awardees, Most Promising Photojournalist, Champion
in Editorial Cartooning (teachers category), English
Coordinator, Back to back Champion Coach in the
Division and Regional English Language Festival
(Editorial Writing) Artist, Singer, Dancer

2. Narrative tenses are
verb tenses that are used to talk
about the past. They are often
found in stories and descriptions
of past events, such as personal
anecdotes.

3. The most common of these is the past
simple. Three other tenses, past
continuous, the past perfect simple and
the past perfect continuous can help us
to say what we want more effeciently.
However, it should be remembered that
almost any story can be told using the past
simple.

4. It is often useful to look at these tenses
together within the context of the
function narrating, i.e. relating past events.

5.  Written example of narrative tenses in use
Bond opened the door very slowly, looked carefully
around the room and walked in. The
window was open and the curtains were blowing in
the wind. Clearly someone had left in a hurry.
Past simple
opened, looked, walked, was
Past continuous
were blowing
Past perfect
had left

6. Spoken example of narrative tenses in
use
A: I saw a UFO once. Well, I think
it was one.
B: Oh yeah?
A: Yeah, really. I was in the country - in
Yorkshire - on the moors...
B: What were you doing up there?
A: Oh, I was visiting some friends. They'd
rented a cottage and we'd gone up to stay
with them.

7. Past simple
saw, was
Past continuous
(What) were (you) doing? was visiting
Past perfect
they'd rented, we'd gone

8. Thank you for
listening and
reading 