Understanding Past Tenses in Grammar
Explore the different past tenses - Simple Past, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect - through examples and comparisons. Learn how to identify, use, and form past tenses correctly in English grammar. Dive into past simple questions, negatives, continuous actions, and perfect aspects. Enhance your language skills with a comprehensive guide to mastering past tenses.
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Identify the past tenses Grammar tense A. Past Simple When I arrived, .... 1. they were talking about me. 2. they had talked about me. 3. they talked about me. B. Past Continuous C. Past Perfect
Past tenses - Use Action 1: I arrived. Action 2: They talked about me. Simple Past Action 2 occurring right after action 1. (dej prebieha jeden za druh m) When I arrived, they talked about me. (First, I arrived. Then they started talking about me.)
Past tenses - Use Action 1: I arrived. Action 2: They talked about me. Past Continuous Action 2 continuing at the same time as action 1. Druh dej prebieha PO AS prv ho, naraz) When I arrived, they were talking about me.. (They started talking about me before I arrived. When I arrived, they were still talking about me.)
Past tenses - Use Action 1: I arrived. Action 2: They talked about me. Past Perfect Action 2 occurring before action 1. (druh dej prebiehal u pred prv m dejom) When I arrived, they had talked about me. U ! (They started and finished talking about me before I arrived. I didn t see them talking about me.)
Past Simple questions/negatives Questions Did you have a good time? Negatives I didn t go there. Past tense of modals MUST - had to ( I had to get up earlier yesterday) Did you have to get up ....? CAN could / was, were able to (We could sleep longer on Sunday. /permission) He could speak when he was one year old. /Ability He was able to repair his car. (managed to do )
Past Continuos Questions What were you doing? Was he going....? Negatives I wasn t waiting for him ... They weren t listening to him...
Past Perfect Constists of HAD + past particple The film had started when I arrived. She had written the letter before I saw her. Questions: Had you done it before you went there? Negatives: It was my first job. I hadn t worked before.
Past Simple + Past Continuous Typical Conjuctions: 1. WHEN after both tenses (simple, continuous)can follow When I saw her, she was doing her homework. When she was going home, she met Tom. 2. WHILE (k m, pok m), 3. AS (ako) are always followed by past continuos While he was listening to music, he heard a loud noise. As they were playing football, Sam broke his leg. 4. SUDDENLY - is followed by past simple Suddenly he heard a loud crying.
Past simple Past Perfect Typical conjuctions AFTER is followed by past perfect After he had taken his music lesson, he went home. BEFORE followed by past simple I had learnt English before I travelled there. Ale na konci vety: I hadn t worked before. BECAUSE - followed by past perfect I didn t pass an exam because I hadn t learnt. SO - followed by past simple I had done it so I was free. BY THE TIME followed by past simple By the time I went to school, I had eaten all breakfast.
Translate the sentences: Kde ste v era i li ke som v s stretla? Ako som i la do pr ce (na aute) videla som autonehodu. Musel si cez v kend pom ha mame s dom cimi pr cami? Ch bali mi priatelia. Nikdy predt m som nebol v zahrani . V sobotu ve er pozerala zauj mav film a m j priate tal noviny. Ke som pri iel do koly, sadol som si do lavice, vybral knihy z ta ky a za al ta . K m som tal, u ite ka vst pila do triedy. Potom ako som si urobil dom cu lohu, i iel som do kina. Pre tal som knihu a tak som ju vr til do kni nice. o si robili ke som sa vr til domov? Sedeli sme v ob va ke ke zrazu brat rozbil okno. Dostal som zl zn mku preto e som sa neu il.
