1) The document discusses different past verb tenses in English including the simple past, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous.
2) It provides examples of how to form each tense and common uses including describing a past action, an interrupting action, or a sequence of events.
3) Irregular verb forms and endings for regular verbs in the simple past are covered as well as uses of time expressions and conjunctions like when and while.
This is an explanation of the use of the Past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous tenses for intermediate students of English.
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2. Simple Past
We form affirmative statements in the simple past with a
subject and the past form of a verb
I finished my homework after lunch
I ate a sandwich for lunch
We form the past form of regular verbs with –d, -ed
Irregular verbs form their past forms in different ways
(see lists)
We use the auxiliary verb did to form negative
statements, questions and short answers
We didn’t like the film last night
Did you hear the news?, Yes, I did
3. Uses of the Simple Past
To describe an action that happened at a definite time in the past
I travelled to Paris in 1985
To talk about an action that interrupted another action that was in
progress in the past
I was studying when the electricity went off
To talk about actions that happened in a sequence in the past
I came home, picked up my laptop and left
To narrate the main actions and events in a story
It was getting dark, I was walking down the road, when I saw a strange man
…
With time expressions such as yesterday, last night, …, four days
ago, in 2004, …
I saw a great film last night
With stative verbs
I had an exam yesterday
4. -ed endings
Most verbs add –ed: started, obeyed, …
Verbs which end in a consonant +e, add –d: lived, moved, …
Verbs that have 1 syllable and end in a single vowel + a single
consonant, double the consonant and add –ed
Exceptions:
– Verbs ending in –w or –x, do not double the consonant: fixed,
showed
– Verbs with 2 syllables, ending in a vowel + a consonant, with
stress on the last syllable, double the final consonant: preferred
– Verbs with 2 syllables ending in l, double it: travelled
– Verbs ending in a consonant + y, change y to i and add –ed:
worried
– Verbs in –ie, add –d: tied, died
5. Past Continuous
We form the past continuos tense with the
past tense of be + a verb + -ing
Were you listening to the radio at 9 last night?
No, I wasn’t. I was watching TV
(Check present continuous for spelling of –ing
forms)
6. Uses of the Past Continuous
To describe an action that was in progress at a specific
time in the past
Mary was working at ten yesterday
To talk about an action that was in progress when a
second action happened
I was studying when the electricity went off
To talk about two actions that were in progress at the
same time in the past
I was having a bath while my husband was cooking
To give background information in a story
It was getting dark, I was walking down the road when I saw a
strange man …
With time expressions such as while, all morning, …
I was working all day
7. When and while
We use when or while in sentences with
two actions in the past
When I came home, I picked up my post
I was sleeping when the fire alarm went off
I was reading a book while you were watching TV
When the clause with when or while
comes at the beginning, we put a comma
after it
When the phone rang, I was watching the news
I was watching the news when the phone rang
8. Past perfect
We form the past perfect tense with had
+ a past participle
I had met Peter before you introduced me to him
Had you seen the film before? No, I hadn’t
We form regular past participles by adding
–d, -ed to a verb
For irregular past participles, see lists
9. Uses of the Past perfect
To talk about a past action that ended before another
action or time in the past (when we use before and
after, we may use the simple past too)
The film had started before we arrived
To show the cause of a past action
I was tired on Monday, I hadn’t slept well the night before
With time expressions such as when, after, before, as
soon as, by the time, by, until
By the time I got home, my mother had already prepared dinner
With adverbs such as ever, never, already, yet, just, so
far and still
I had never been to such a beautiful place before
10. Past perfect Continuous
We form the past perfect continuous tense with
had + been + a verb + -ing
We use it to emphasize the continuation of an
action that was in progress before another
action or time in the past
Sara had been working here for two weeks when she had the
accident
To show the cause of a past action
I had been travelling all night, so I was tired
With time expressions such as when, before, by
the time, for, since and how long
He had been working for two hours when you interrupted him