Question | Answer |
Past tenses questions | |
Which are the four past tense forms in English? | -Simple past Past continuous Past perfect Past perfect continuous |
When do we use this forms? | -to talk about the past -to refer to the present or future in conditions -In conditions, hypotheses and wishes, if we want to talk about the past, we always use the past perfect -We can use the past forms to talk about the present in a few polite expressions |
Past tense When do we use It? | It is used to talk about something that started and finished at a definite time in the past. |
How to form the Past Tense? | Regular verbs: add –ED to the end of the verb. *PLAY-PLAYED Irregular verbs: The verb changes. DRIVE-DROVE |
Past continuous | To indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted |
Form of past continuous | Pronoun + was/were+verb+ing.... |
Past perfect | The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. . |
Form of past perfect | Pronoun + had + (3rd form of the verb) |
Past perfect continuous | We use the Past Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. |
Form of past perfect continuous | Pronoun + had+ been+ verb+ ing |
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