Mastering Past Tenses for Effective Communication
Enhance your grammar skills with a comprehensive guide on past tenses including simple past, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. Learn the rules, formulas, and examples to confidently use these tenses in your writing and speaking. Images included for visual aid.
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s.roshni ASSISTANT PROFESSOR jamal mohammed college trichy -20
PAST TENSE
SIMPLE PAST TENSE The action which happened in an extreme past. FORMULA S+ V (Past tense) EXAMPLE He played well in the match. S V (Past tense)
PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE The action which was continuing in the past for sometime. FORMULA S + Singular (I,He, She, It) + Was + V+ing S+ Plural (You, We, They) + Were + V + ing EXAMPLE He was reading for more than two hours. S Singular V + ing
PAST PERFECT TENSE In two past actions, the action which happened first is denoted with past perfect the second action is denoted with simple past. FORMULA S+ Had + V (PP) EXAMPLE I had completed my work before he arrived. S PPT V (PP)
PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE The action which was continuing in the past for a long time. FORMULA S + Had been +V + ing EXAMPLE I had been swimming since morning. S PPCT V + ing
