The document discusses different tenses used to talk about the past in English, including the past simple, past continuous, and past perfect simple tenses. It provides examples of how to form and use these tenses, discusses using time expressions like before, after, while, and until with the past tenses, and provides tips on irregular verb forms in the past tense.
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. Past SimplePast Simple:
Subject + Verb-ed (or irregular form)
◦ Negative: Subject + did not/didn’t Verb (basic form)
◦ Interrogative: Did + Subject + Verb (basic form)
Past Continuous:Past Continuous:
Subject + was/were + Verb-ing
◦ Negative: Subject + was/were + not (wasn’t/weren’t) +Verb-ing
◦ Interrogative: Was/Were + Subject + Verb-ing ?
Past Perfect SimplePast Perfect Simple:
Subject + had + Past Participle (Verb-ed or irregular form)
◦ Negative: Subject + had + not (hadn’t)+ Past Participle
Interrogative: Had + Subject + Past Participle
3. To talk about finished actions in the past:
One action after the other:
“She opened the door, turned on the lights and entered the house”
An action that happened in a certain situation.
“The car knocked the child down when he was crossing the road”
A short action finished in the past (you indicate when it
happened with an adverb of Time):
“Yesterday, I arrived at home too late”.
A finished action that takes a long period of time
(indicated in the sentence):
“I lived in Britain when I was young”
4. If the verb ends in “silent –e” It disappears
◦ “ I lived in Italy” (live + ed lived)
If the verb ends in “consonant + y” -ied
◦ “They carried the boxes home” (carry + ed carried)
Duplication of the final consonant ONLY IF:
1. The verb ends in CVC: Consonant + vowel + ONE only
Consonant (except X or W)
2. The last syllable is stressed
3. The vowel of the last syllable is “short”
They dropped the ball” / “They kidnapped my sister”
Exception: when the verb ends in “l” it doubles though the last
syllable is not stressed. (example: “travelled”)
5. To talk about an action in progress in the past (i) or a
temporal situation in the past (ii):
(i) At midday last Sunday, I was working with my laptop
(ii) In 1998, I was living with my cousin
To express the action in progress in which another
past action happened:
“The little kid was crossing the road when a car knocked him down”
To talk about the context in which the events of a story
happened:
“It was getting dark, the sun was beginning to hide behind the hills, women
were tidying up the entrance of the church. Suddenly, a strange red light
appeared in the sky”
To talk about two actions that were taking place
simultaneously in the past:
“My wife was talking on the phone while I was surfing the web”
6. To express a finished action that took place before
another completed action in the past.
“My family had already arrived before I left”.
“After we had finished dinner, we got ready to go out.”
“When the police arrived, the murderer had killed everyone”.
“By the time we met, I had eaten all the packets of salt & vinegar crisps”
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
8. FOR + a period of time (duration)
I stayed in Scotland for two years.
SINCE + a year, an event, etc. (indicates starting point)
I know him since my wedding.
Since 1978 people can vote in Spain.
BEFORE
[PAST PERFECT] WHEN + PAST SIMPLE
BY THE TIME
I had (already) bought my house before I got married / before I moved to UK
when I got married / when I moved to UK
by the time I got married / by the time I moved to UK
WHILE /AS + past continuous or past simple
= WHEN + past simple, past
continuous
As/ while I was walking, I phoned my grandmother
= When I phoned her, I was walking
9. AS SOON AS
◦ Phone me, as soon as you arrive in Italy.
◦ As soon as the news had been broadcast, I phoned them.
BE CAREFUL!!!
AS/SINCE can also mean BECAUSE
◦ I didn’t go out because it was raining
= Since/ As it was raining, I didn’t go out.
10. AS SOON AS
◦ Phone me, as soon as you arrive in Italy.
◦ As soon as the news had been broadcast, I phoned them.
BE CAREFUL!!!
AS/SINCE can also mean BECAUSE
◦ I didn’t go out because it was raining
= Since/ As it was raining, I didn’t go out.