Past Tenses. Positive Sentence

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Past Tenses
Spotlight 10
Module 5

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Past Simple
Positive Sentence:
S + Ved/V2+ … - She worked yesterday.
Negative Sentence:
S + did not/didn’t + verb (in base form) + … She didn’t work yesterday.
Question form:
Did + S + verb (in base form)?- Did she work
yesterday?

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Past simple
• To express completed action
in the past;
• To describe a series of
completed actions in the
past;
• To express past habits or
states which are now
finished. (In such cases we
can use used to)
• They got home very late last
night.
• I finished work, walked to the
beach, and found a nice place
to swim.
• When I was young, I watched
lots of television every day
after school.
• Kitchens were|used to be very
different hundred years ago.

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Time Expressions with Past Simple Tense
• Yesterday
• Ago
• Last month
• Last week
• Last year
• In 2003
• In 2007 …

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Past Continuous
•Was/were + V-ing (Present
Participle)

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Past Continuous
• Positive Sentence:- S + was/were +Ving +…..
• At three o’clock yesterday, I was working in the garden.
• Negative Sentence: S + wasn‘t/weren‘t (was not/were
not) + Ving + …..
• My friends weren’t playing basketball together for hours
yesterday.
• Question form: - Was/were +S + Ving + …?
• Was he always complaining in class?

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Past Continuous
• To describe what someone
was doing at a particular
point in time;
• To express interrupted
action in the past;
• To describe parallel actions;
• To describe repetition and
irritation;
• Story background
• I was working in the garden all
day yesterday.
• I was driving to work when I
crashed my car.
• While you were washing the
dishes, Sue was walking the
dog.
• He was always complaining in
class.
• Once the birds were singing and
……

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Past Continuous
• Time Expressions Used with the Past Progressive Tense
• When
• While
• Always
• Constantly
• At that time
• In those days
• All day
• All evening
• For hours…

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Past Perfect
Had + V3/Ved(past
participle)

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Past Perfect
• Positive Sentence: S + had + past participle + …
• She had finished the test.
• Negative Sentence: S + had not/hadn’t + past
participle + …
• She hadn’t finished the test.
• Question form: Had + S + past participle + …?
• Had she finished the test?

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Past Perfect
• To describe an action finished
before another past action;
• To describe an action that
happened before a specific
time in the past;
• To describe cause and effect
(combine with Past Simple);
• To emphasize the result of
activity in the past
• Richard had gone out when
his wife arrived in the office.
• She had never been to
an opera before last night.
• I got stuck in traffic because
there had been an accident.
• I had been to London twice by
the time I got a job in New
York.

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Past Perfect
• Time Expressions Used with the Past Perfect Tense
• For
• Since
• Just
• After
• Before
• Until
• The moment that

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Past Perfect Continuous
had + been + V-ing (present
participle)

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Past Perfect Continuous
• Positive Sentence: S + had + been + V-ing (present
participle) +…
• They had been playing tennis.
• Negative Sentence: S + had not/ hadn’t + been +V-ing
(present participle) +…
• They hadn’t been playing tennis.
• Question Form: Had + S + been + V-ing (present participle)?
• Had they been playing tennis?

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Past Perfect Continuous
• To describe a past action,
already started and
continued up to another
action or time in the
past;
• To describe the cause of
something in the past
•The boys had been
playing soccer for
about an hour when
it started to rain.
•He was tired
because he had
been jogging.