Past Tenses

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Past Tenses
Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, Past Perfect Continuous
S

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Past Simple

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Formation of Past Simple

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Key-words
S yesterday
S two days ago
S last week/month/year/century,etc
S in 1955
S when (in questions, for example)
S !!! We always know when the action happened (указано, когда
совершено действие в прошлом либо это понятно по контексту)

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Past Continuous

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Formation of Past Continuous

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Key- words
S at 5 o’clock yesterday
S While
S When
S All morning yesterday

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Past Perfect
S
. Clue-

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Formation of Past Perfect

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Key words
S before
S yesterday by 7 o’clock (by the time)
S after
S no sooner

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Past Perfect Continuous

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Formation

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Key-words
S Since 5 o’clock
S For two hours
e.g She had been writing a letter for 2 hours when he came.