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last ... Simple Past or Past Simple ... ago in 1990 yesterday
USE 3 Duration in Past He went. USE 4 Habits in the Past He didn't go. Did he go?
was/were +infinitive + -ing USE1 Interrupted Action in the Past An action happened in the middle of another action Past Progressive or Past Continuous while someone was doing sth. at a certain time (in the past) - you do not know whether it was finished or not
I wasnt working. He wasnt working. I wasn't going. He wasnt going. He hasn't been working. I haven't been going.
Was I working? Was he working? Was I going? Was he going? Has he been working? Have I been going?
mostly when two actions in a story are related to each other: the action which had already happened is put into Past Perfect, the other action into Simple Past the past of the Present Perfect
had + past participle* *(infinitive + -ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs) USE 1 Completed Action before Something in the Past
He had gone.
He hadn't gone.
Had he gone?
how long something had been happening before something else happened
had + been +infinitive + ing USE 1 Duration Before Something in the Past
I had been working. He had been working. I had been going. He had been going.
I hadn't been working. He hadn't been working. I hadn't been going. He hadn't been going.
Had I been working? Had he been working? Had I been going? Had he been going?
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English Made Easy in 20 Minutes a Day! DAY-3 : STUDY OF PAST TENSES COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PAST TENSE(BLANK) VERB: ________ ____________ ______________ (____________)
Foundation English
Person
Past Continuous Helping Verb: am/was/were I (was), he/she/it(was), we/you/they(were) Main Verb: ing Form
Past Perfect Helping Verb: had I,we,you,they,he/she/it(had) Main Verb: III Form
Past Perfect Continuous Helping Verb: had been I,we,you,they, he/she/it(had been) Main Verb: ing Form
I We You He She It They Note: 1. 2. Practice writing 3 examples everyday at different intervals for a week. Ensure you write at least 20 examples in total to gain the mastery. Comparative Study of Past Tense(Blank) Verb: write-wrote-written(writing) Past Simple/ Past Continuous Past Perfect Indefinite Helping Verb: Helping Verb: had Helping Verb: did am/was/were I,we,you,they,he/she/it( I,we,you,they, I (was), had) he,she,it(did) he/she/it(was), Main Verb: III Form Main Verb: I Form we/you/they(were) Main Verb: ing Form I did write notes We did write notes You did write notes He did write notes She did write notes It did write notes They did write notes I was writing notes We were writing notes You were writing notes He was writing notes She was writing notes It was writing notes They were writing notes I had written notes We had written notes You had written notes He had written notes She had written notes It had written notes They had written notes
Person
Past Perfect Continuous Helping Verb: had been I,we,you,they, he/she/it(had been) Main Verb: ing Form I had been writing notes We had been writing notes You had been writing notes He had been writing notes She had been writing notes It had been writing notes They had been writing notes
I wrote notes We wrote notes You wrote notes He wrote notes She wrote notes It wrote notes
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